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The Old Gods and the New Print
Belgium
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Chateau Noisy - one of Belgium's most beautiful abandoned sites, if not the most beautiful. The mother of all abandoned castles.It was intended as a secluded Belgian refuge for the Liedekerke-De Beaufort family fleeing the French Revolution, but its time of peace was short-lived. During its turbulent history the chateau was occupied by the German troops, and from 1950s onward served as an orphanage and a holiday camp for sickly children. Demolished in 2017. Part of the ‘Dulcis Domus’ series that documents abandoned villas, palaces and castles found across Europe. After the Second World War and the post-war economic fluctuations, they faded into obscurity with the dawn of the new age. A staggering number of them now stand abandoned and overgrown, often very difficult to reach. ‘Dulcis Domus’ was the winner of Moscow International Foto Awards, Tokyo International Foto Awards and ND Awards in the category 'Architecture-Interiors', and exhibited in Paris, Budapest, Moscow and Zagreb.
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Print:Giclee on Photo Paper
Size:12 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:17.25 W x 13.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
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Belgium
Abandoned spaces dot the cityscape like blind spots, existing in temporal incongruities they themselves produce. Theirs is a different reality than our own. They are never truly dead, yet never really alive. Precariously treading along the border between life and death, decay and growth, the seen and the unseen, the past and the present, abandoned places confusingly encompass both at the same time, thus leaving the ordinary passer-by overwhelmed with both attraction and revulsion. An uncertainty of what to do, a discrepancy between the wish to look away and the unconscious desire to step into them. My images rely on a sense of scale, introspection and imagery of the mind. Photographing abandoned places is not merely a quest to document a society slowly losing its grandeur and its will to prosper and preserve. Nor is it about seeking grandeur in a collapsing structure. It is rather about provoking a certain get-up-and-go feeling. About reclaiming places deemed inaccessible and/or forbidden. About the deconstruction of everyday life.
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