ABANDONED PLACES
S140 x 220 mm | 160 pages
henk van rensbergen
Full Colour Illustrations
Hardcover English edition ISBN 9789401434775
While his crew is resting at the pool, pilot and photographer Henk van Rensbergen leaves for an expedition to abandoned hôtels particuliers, overgrown factories or desolate, green places. Van Rensbergen always manages to see the beauty in decay, and the (international) press quickly gave him credit for it. ‘Haunting photographs’ was the headline in The Wall Street Journal. The handy, pocket-sized booklet Abandoned Places shows the best from Abandoned Places 1, 2, 3 and The Photographer’s Selection, completed with brand new material.
H E N K V A N R E N S B E R G E N is the pilot of a Boeing 787 and a pioneering Urban Explorer. For more than 25 years, he has been capturing the most beautiful pictures of abandoned places. His Abandoned Places picture books (1, 2, 3 and The Photographer’s Selection) have been highly successful. A selection of his work can be found on: www.henkvanrensbergen.com
€ 15,99 / USD 19.95
H E N K VA N R E N S B E R G E N
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ALABAMA SHOPPING MALL ▷
This huge mall has been abandoned for some years. Even the larger parking lot was deserted when we arrived… except for one car with two occupants sitting half-hidden in a corner of the parking lot. Tough luck: security! Almost immediately, they got into action and trailed us. We stopped. They stopped too. We turned left, they too. Right... right. We decided to leave the parking lot, drive around the block and return via the other entrance. But who was standing right there waiting for us? You've got it.
Plan B: talk to them, explain, and hope they might look away while we try and enter the building. We parked our car, got out, walked towards them and watched the hesitant maneuvering of their car. Inside it were two women. We looked at each other: we invitingly, they uncomprehendingly. They reversed, parked again. The older woman explained something to the younger one. They had already forgotten about us. Such is life when a mother is teaching her daughter to drive. ◆
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