Ruins photography

Staircase in the abandoned Hotel Monte Palace on Sao Miguel, Azores

The ruins Photography , English as a ruin porn called, is a relatively young genre of photography that makes the decay of buildings, their morbidity and their generated by the time non-importance to the central issue. The objects are also often referred to as " Lost Places " or " Abandoned Places ". Runien photography is related to architectural photography or landscape photography . Ruin photography also deals with traces of culture in the broadest sense.

Objects

Abandoned places in recent history

Buildings and places of all kinds that were built by people and later abandoned and abandoned for various reasons (e.g. bankruptcies, environmental disasters, building ruins due to lack of money, abandonment due to political change, etc.) are shown. The object is cited as a transitory contemporary witness. These include above all so-called lost places , forgotten or abandoned places. Examples are old industrial plants, car cemeteries, barracks, tunnels, bridges, bunkers or hotels. They can often be explored as part of so-called urban explorations . A casual theme as part of the photos is the "recapture" of such buildings by nature. Another motif is holding the object in a documentary manner before it disappears completely when it is torn off.

Abandoned places of history

Strictly speaking, photography of ruins of castles, abandoned sanctuaries or tombs, ancient sites, etc. is also part of the subject. The difference to the Lost Places is, if anything, that historic ruins are often protected from further decay as places of historical remembrance.

Relationship to other genres of photography

In nude photography there is a separate genre Lost Places, where pictures are taken in such buildings. The reason given is often that a tension is created between the morbid or decrepit and the often young models. A sub-discipline are abandoned technical objects, e.g. B. abandoned car cemeteries .

Motivation of the photographers

The motives for looking for such objects are varied.

Risk: On the one hand, there is the stimulus to enter objects that are secured by protective devices or protective personnel.
Rarity: Due to the difficult accessibility, the objects are rarely photographed.
Searching for traces and nostalgia
Fascination of the morbid, the ephemeral, the recapture of nature
social or technological criticism.

Examples

Michigan Central Station in Detroit
Factory hall of the Germersheim shipyard
Former paper mill in Lambrecht (Palatinate)
Duisburg, Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park , ore bunker
Saint-Palais-sur-Mer : bunker of the Atlantic Wall
Bunker under the Milky Way
Bremen: submarine bunker Valentin (interior view)
Tirpitz bunker in Denmark
Detroit Main Station
Old S-Bahn station in the Olympiapark Munich
Fort Douaumont near Verdun
Maginot Line - Schoenenbourg (interior view)
Former government bunker near Ahrweiler: entrance area
Prison bunker in the Dachau concentration camp memorial
KdF building Prora on Rügen
Old military airfield - French Army de l'air - in Eastern France near Bar-le-Duc ( Lorraine )
Dilapidated interior in Beelitz .