There is something truly amazing about the moment when the lights go out forever. When men cease to walk down the corridors. When time stand still for a place. That is what abandonment is. Nature begins to take back what is rightfully its own. Starting with broken windows and damaged roofs. As water begins to seep through the cracks and infiltrates the structure. With it comes the the peeling of years of coats of paint. The floors begin to heave up and down from the water. Seeds take root and grow. Life re-enters the building, just in a way man never intended it to. Gradually rust crawls down the walls and across the rotting floors. Light fixtures that once illuminated our paths begin to cover the ground. Then I step in. My heart beating as I take a step back in time. Trying to find out what these walls can tell. The history of the site told through the structures themselves. When was it built? Why and when was it abandoned? Who walked these now hollow grounds? With my camera in hand I set forth on a goal to capture what man has left behind and what nature is taking back. The beauty in decay. To be forever on film even when all is gone. That is what it means to be an Urban Explorer.

Urbex NYC; Buffalo (Student)

Studying Architecture at the University at Buffalo

Digital Cameras

-Nikon D3100 (2012)

18-55

55-200

55-300

GoPro Hero 4

-iPhone 6

Film Cameras

-Kodak No. 2c Brownie (1917)

-Bell & Howell Two Fifty Two 8mm (1950s)

-Kodak Signet 50 (1957)

-Minolta Maxxum 5 (2001)