Dan Dubowitz loves to travel the world in search of abandoned, decaying buildings, which are usually gasping their last breath before being demolished to make way for something new — or merely rotting away. He finds beauty in many of these spaces, and he documents them lovingly with his medium-format camera.
In this book, he writes in a conversational tone about each site — its history, its former inhabitants, its role in society (then and now), and its future.
He is also a bit of a philosopher.
"The spaces that we abandon reveal much about ourselves and the psyche of contemporary societies," says Dubowitz.
About his practice of photographing abandoned areas, he says,
"These places were all visited between 2000 and 2005, usually alone, with a camera and a notebook. The exposures often ran to 20-30 minutes during which time there was an opportunity to take in the scene and come to know these places."
Wastelands
by Dan Dubowitz
Hardcover:
176 pages
290 x 290 mm
Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-904587-83-5
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Wastelands
Dan Dubowitz travels the world in search of abandoned, decaying buildings. He finds beauty in many of these spaces, and he documents them lovingly with his medium-format camera.
Wastelands
Dan Dubowitz travels the world in search of abandoned, decaying buildings. He finds beauty in many of these spaces, and he documents them lovingly with his medium-format camera.
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