Urban Jungle

An article in Preservation Magazine about the photographers of abandoned (mostly) urban buildings. It opened up a really cool new world to me. I've always been fascinated by old, and sometimes abandoned, buildings. Preservation is what was supposed to be my career at one point (then, life got in the way.....I hope to find my way back eventually). These photographers explore a different notion of preservation than the traditional This Old House point of view....that the use of art and media can also preserve and that there is more than one way of doing things.

A good place to start- Infiltration


Explore......

• Art In Ruins- a fab local New England site
• Opacity- haunting photography of old hospitals around NY and New England
• Insane Bunkers- another local fave
• New England Ruins- haunting
• Dijital Photography- mainly New England, check out the creepy old slaughterhouse
• Abandoned NJ- answered questions about some places I'd encountered in my childhood in the tri-state area
• Weird NJ- just cool. and weird. and very Jersey.
• Modern Ruins- mainly Hudson Valley
• Abandoned Buildings of the Northeast- check out the section on Rockland Psychiatric Center
• Hudson Valley Ruins- great site with great pictures that shows off the plethora of creepy old and beautiful buildings in the Hudson Valley

Not nearly exhaustive enough. I'll add more as I explore the interweb. (Let me know if I've overlooked any).