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Echoes From The Past
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Forsaken Castles and Mansions
Photographer Andre Govia is an urban explorer who enters abandoned properties and photographs his discoveries. He's compiled some of is finds in the book "Abandoned Planet." He won't reveal the exact location of the abandoned castles and mansions in this collection; instead, let your imagination take you...
(Pictured) Abandoned building in South U.K.
Photographer Andre Govia is an urban explorer who enters abandoned properties and photographs his discoveries. He's compiled some of is finds in the book "Abandoned Planet." He won't reveal the exact location of the abandoned castles and mansions in this collection; instead, let your imagination take you...
(Pictured) Abandoned building in South U.K.
Abandoned Planet by
Andre Govia
Echoes From The Past
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Forsaken Castles and Mansions
Western Europe
Photographer Andre Govia is an urban explorer who enters abandoned properties and photographs his discoveries. He's compiled some of is finds in the book "Abandoned Planet." He won't reveal the exact location of the abandoned castles and mansions in this collection; instead, let your imagination take you...
(Pictured) Abandoned building in South U.K.
Abandoned Planet by
Andre Govia
Echoes From The Past
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Forsaken Castles and Mansions
Northern Europe
Photographer Andre Govia is an urban explorer who enters abandoned properties and photographs his discoveries. He's compiled some of is finds in the book "Abandoned Planet." He won't reveal the exact location of the abandoned castles and mansions in this collection; instead, let your imagination take you...
(Pictured) Abandoned building in South U.K.
Abandoned Planet by
Andre Govia
Echoes From The Past
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Forsaken Castles and Mansions
Western Europe
Photographer Andre Govia is an urban explorer who enters abandoned properties and photographs his discoveries. He's compiled some of is finds in the book "Abandoned Planet." He won't reveal the exact location of the abandoned castles and mansions in this collection; instead, let your imagination take you...
(Pictured) Abandoned building in South U.K.
Abandoned Planet by
Andre Govia
Echoes From The Past
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Forsaken Castles and Mansions
Northern UK
Photographer Andre Govia is an urban explorer who enters abandoned properties and photographs his discoveries. He's compiled some of is finds in the book "Abandoned Planet." He won't reveal the exact location of the abandoned castles and mansions in this collection; instead, let your imagination take you...
(Pictured) Abandoned building in South U.K.
Abandoned Planet by
Andre Govia
Echoes From The Past
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Forsaken Castles and Mansions
Southern Europe
Photographer Andre Govia is an urban explorer who enters abandoned properties and photographs his discoveries. He's compiled some of is finds in the book "Abandoned Planet." He won't reveal the exact location of the abandoned castles and mansions in this collection; instead, let your imagination take you...
(Pictured) Abandoned building in South U.K.
Abandoned Planet by
Andre Govia
Echoes From The Past
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Forsaken Castles and Mansions
Southern Europe
Photographer Andre Govia is an urban explorer who enters abandoned properties and photographs his discoveries. He's compiled some of is finds in the book "Abandoned Planet." He won't reveal the exact location of the abandoned castles and mansions in this collection; instead, let your imagination take you...
(Pictured) Abandoned building in South U.K.
Abandoned Planet by
Andre Govia
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Forsaken Castles and Mansions
Photographer Andre Govia is an urban explorer who enters abandoned properties and photographs his discoveries. He's compiled some of is finds in the book "Abandoned Planet." He won't reveal the exact location of the abandoned castles and mansions in this collection; instead, let your imagination take you...
(Pictured) Abandoned building in South U.K.
Abandoned Planet by
Andre Govia
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Forsaken Castles and Mansions
Chateau de la Foret
Photographer Andre Govia is an urban explorer who enters abandoned properties and photographs his discoveries. He's compiled some of is finds in the book "Abandoned Planet." He won't reveal the exact location of the abandoned castles and mansions in this collection; instead, let your imagination take you...
(Pictured) Abandoned building in South U.K.
Abandoned Planet by
Andre Govia
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Forsaken Castles and Mansions
Chateau de la Foret
Photographer Andre Govia is an urban explorer who enters abandoned properties and photographs his discoveries. He's compiled some of is finds in the book "Abandoned Planet." He won't reveal the exact location of the abandoned castles and mansions in this collection; instead, let your imagination take you...
(Pictured) Abandoned building in South U.K.
Abandoned Planet by
Andre Govia
Echoes From The Past
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Forsaken Castles and Mansions
Ruined Castle, Near Croughaun, Co Waterford, Ireland
Photographer Andre Govia is an urban explorer who enters abandoned properties and photographs his discoveries. He's compiled some of is finds in the book "Abandoned Planet." He won't reveal the exact location of the abandoned castles and mansions in this collection; instead, let your imagination take you...
(Pictured) Abandoned building in South U.K.
Abandoned Planet by
Andre Govia
Echoes From The Past
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Forsaken Castles and Mansions
Photographer Andre Govia is an urban explorer who enters abandoned properties and photographs his discoveries. He's compiled some of is finds in the book "Abandoned Planet." He won't reveal the exact location of the abandoned castles and mansions in this collection; instead, let your imagination take you...
(Pictured) Abandoned building in South U.K.
Abandoned Planet by
Andre Govia
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Forsaken Castles and Mansions
August 11, 2013 - Fishkill, New York, United States - The ruins of the Bannerman family residence are seen on Pollepel Island in the Hudson River about 60 miles north of New York City. Built in the early 1900s by Francis Bannerman VI.
Photographer Andre Govia is an urban explorer who enters abandoned properties and photographs his discoveries. He's compiled some of is finds in the book "Abandoned Planet." He won't reveal the exact location of the abandoned castles and mansions in this collection; instead, let your imagination take you...
(Pictured) Abandoned building in South U.K.
Abandoned Planet by
Andre Govia
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Forsaken Castles and Mansions
Spring Pidhirtsi Castle panorama view (Ukraine)
Photographer Andre Govia is an urban explorer who enters abandoned properties and photographs his discoveries. He's compiled some of is finds in the book "Abandoned Planet." He won't reveal the exact location of the abandoned castles and mansions in this collection; instead, let your imagination take you...
(Pictured) Abandoned building in South U.K.
Abandoned Planet by
Andre Govia
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Forsaken Castles and Mansions
Sept. 15, 2012 - Europe - Castle. A still furnished castle in Belgium. Urban explorer Ernest SÂbastien, 32, has spent the last two years traveling around Europe photographing more than 300 abandoned buildings.
Photographer Andre Govia is an urban explorer who enters abandoned properties and photographs his discoveries. He's compiled some of is finds in the book "Abandoned Planet." He won't reveal the exact location of the abandoned castles and mansions in this collection; instead, let your imagination take you...
(Pictured) Abandoned building in South U.K.
Abandoned Planet by
Andre Govia
Echoes From The Past
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Forsaken Castles and Mansions
Sept. 15, 2012 - Europe - Castle. A piano in a decaying castle in Belgium. Urban explorer Ernest SÂbastien, 32, has spent the last two years travelling around Europe photographing more than 300 abandoned buildings.
Photographer Andre Govia is an urban explorer who enters abandoned properties and photographs his discoveries. He's compiled some of is finds in the book "Abandoned Planet." He won't reveal the exact location of the abandoned castles and mansions in this collection; instead, let your imagination take you...
(Pictured) Abandoned building in South U.K.
Abandoned Planet by
Andre Govia
Echoes From The Past
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Forsaken Castles and Mansions
Photographer Andre Govia is an urban explorer who enters abandoned properties and photographs his discoveries. He's compiled some of is finds in the book "Abandoned Planet." He won't reveal the exact location of the abandoned castles and mansions in this collection; instead, let your imagination take you...
(Pictured) Abandoned building in South U.K.
Abandoned Planet by
Andre Govia
Echoes From The Past
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Forsaken Castles and Mansions
Historic castle in La Rioja fields of wine. The door is surprisingly high and narrow. It is abandoned and in ruins.
Photographer Andre Govia is an urban explorer who enters abandoned properties and photographs his discoveries. He's compiled some of is finds in the book "Abandoned Planet." He won't reveal the exact location of the abandoned castles and mansions in this collection; instead, let your imagination take you...
(Pictured) Abandoned building in South U.K.
Abandoned Planet by
Andre Govia
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Ruins of Chervonohorod Castle over Dnister River Valley, near Nyrkiv in Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.
Photographer Andre Govia is an urban explorer who enters abandoned properties and photographs his discoveries. He's compiled some of is finds in the book "Abandoned Planet." He won't reveal the exact location of the abandoned castles and mansions in this collection; instead, let your imagination take you...
(Pictured) Abandoned building in South U.K.
Abandoned Planet by
Andre Govia
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The abandoned neo-gothic castle of Chateau de Noisy. Located in Celles, southern Belgium.
Photographer Andre Govia is an urban explorer who enters abandoned properties and photographs his discoveries. He's compiled some of is finds in the book "Abandoned Planet." He won't reveal the exact location of the abandoned castles and mansions in this collection; instead, let your imagination take you...
(Pictured) Abandoned building in South U.K.
Abandoned Planet by
Andre Govia
Entering the room midway to stand motionless in melancholy silence the air fills with charged whispers from the past, voices on the wind, chilling breaths from the past tingles down the spine.
Listening hard the wind faintly carries the echos of yesteryear,
conversations reaching out from times gone by.
Stop and empty your mind and feel the floors, walls and ceilings with your spirit and soul. The room fills with electric energy, a buzz with life lived and no longer seen, an imprint in passing time.
Abandoned America
by Matthew Christopher
As in Abandoned America and throughout the ages, mankind has been fascinated by the ruins of previous societies. The desire to gain a greater understanding of our past has driven archaeologists, artists, and scholars from across the world to study the vestiges of lifestyles that have vanished in an attempt to capture their mystique and beauty.
Originally intended as an examination of the rise and fall of the state hospital system, Matthew Christopher’s Abandoned America rapidly grew to encompass derelict factories and industrial sites, schools, churches, power plants, hospitals, prisons, military installations, hotels, resorts, homes, and more.
Through his collection of writing and photography,
Matthew Christopher has spent the last decade documenting the ruins of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever known: our own.
Exploring sites like the charred remains of the Hotel Do De, the rusted cells of the Essex County Jail Annex, the sublime majesty of the Church of the Transfiguration, or the eerie and dilapidated remnants of the New Castle Elks Lodge, the work spans architectural treasures left to the elements and then all too often lost forever.
With 240 pages of beautiful photographs, a foreword by celebrated author James Howard Kunstler, and detailed historical background on each site.
Abandoned America: The Age of Consequences is sure to captivate anyone with an interest in the modern ruins in our midst.
