It was basically an accident I happened to wander into the magnificent reception hall of the disused Soviet textile factory complex. Don’t get me wrong – I was there for a good reason, to check out the old factories on the bank of the western border river of Russia. The red brick buildings of the […]Read Post ›
There’s not much left from the abandoned submarine base near the small town of Hara at northern Estonia. But even the fragments are quite much regarding that once upon a time the complex filled almost the entire bay. These sad ruins were all that remained when the system collapsed. The rotting pier with grey concrete […]Read Post ›
Already from outside one could tell that it wasn’t an ordinary house, just one of the many pale brick family homes built near the middle-sized cities of Finland. No, something was distinctly fucked. The summer holiday had ended and the house had the worst of hangovers. The building was dull in its classical way, typical […]Read Post ›
What could be more Russian than a galosh factory? Well, maybe an abandoned galosh factory. There it stands, at the outskirts of central St. Petersburg, like a forgotten bride in veils. Once a magnificent plant, then a large industrial area, the “Red Triangle” (or Krasnyi Treugolnik in Russian) rubber factory is now forsaken in all […]Read Post ›
Wasteland 