Once I was home - 2015 - Photography
Peter Untermaierhofer Munich, Germany Since 2009, Peter has been photographing abandoned places, mostly in Europe, including Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium and France. In 2017, Peter visited the Ghost Town Pripyat in the Chernobyl
Exclusion Zone for five days. His main principle is to capture the beauty of uninhabited places as they are in real life, without any excessive post-editing or use of colour filters and high contrasts. This helps to allow the viewer to
feel the genuine mood of each spot, which always has a proper reason for decay. Look at this ghost room; wouldn’t you agree that it awakes imagination and curiosity? What do you think has happened here?
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