6 Urban Exploration Instagram Accounts You Need to Follow
30 August 2019
Live vicariously through the daring exploits of these modern explorers.
Urban exploration is all the rage on Instagram. Photographers are going to increasingly risky lengths to capture perfect shots of dangerous and decrepit places across the world. Some do it for the money and some do it for the thrill, while others have more cerebral motives. Regardless of why they're risking their lives to capture the perfect shot of the nearest no-trespassing zone, these photographers are all brilliant at their craft. Here are six of the most impressive accounts.
@konaction
This Berlin-based photographer has a penchant for capturing architecture in unique ways. Berlin is one of the most famous cities for urban explorer, so he had a lot to work with, but his photography skills have taken him across the world.
▲@abandoned.america
Matthew Christopher's photographs of American dissolution have made him famous. Author of books like Game of Consequences and Dismantling the Dream, Christopher takes a more cerebral approach to the hidden underbelly of decline that underlies the nation and its reigning ideals.
▲@__krampus__
This up-and-coming photographer captures the beautiful ruins of Japan, somehow finding hundreds of abandoned rail stations, theme parks, greenhouses and more.
▲@abandonedafterdark
Existing at the boundary between stunning and eerie, this account's photographs find the opulence in decay. You'll find ruined carousels and rotting cathedrals beside skeletal airplanes and collapsing houses. The whole account is a slideshow of brilliantly captured chaos that successfully communicates the weird mix of sadness and thrill conjured by the best abandoned places.
▲@black_soap
Part high-def concert photos, part broken-down abandoned places, this Instagrammer's high-drama photographs are high-quality departures from most of our ordinary realities.
▲@Andy.c.photography
This photographer's account contains thousands of strikingly beautiful images of places both abandoned and sparklingly modern.
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