The built environment of the city has always been incomplete, by omission and necessity, and will remain so. Despite the visions of futurists, the work of our planners and cement-layers thankfully remains a fractured and discontinuous whole, an urban field riven with internal margins, pockmarked by decay, underlaid with secret waterways. Stepping outside our prearranged traffic patterns and established destinations, we find a city laced with liminality, with borderlands cutting across its heart and reaching into its sky. We find a thousand vanishing points, each unique, each alive, each pregnant with riches and wonders and time.
This is a website about exploring some of those spaces, about immersing oneself in stormwater sewers and utility tunnels and abandoned industry, about tapping into the worlds that are embedded in our urban environment yet are decidedly removed from the collective experience of civilized life. This is a website about spaces that exist at the boundaries of modern control, as concessions to the landscape, as the debris left by economic transition, as evidence of the transient nature of our place upon this earth.
I'll no longer offer a disclaimer. If you can take care and treat yourself and these places responsibly, I wholely encourage you to open your eyes and ears and mind to the hidden worlds around you.
I am 25, a student of global political economy and conflict, and have been exploring seriously since 2003. Photos appearing here were shot with a Canon S30 (until mid-2004), a Canon 300D (until mid-2006), and now a Canon 20D.
If for any reason you would like to get in touch with me, your e-mail is always welcome.
