5/18/2023 0 Comments Urban explorer photography![]() Lukas Rodriguez photographs the Lake Dolores Waterpark, an abandoned water park in the Mojave Desert. Read on for our guide to getting started, and find inspiration in some incredible photos from the 500px community. ![]() What unites them all is a shared passion for the overlooked and untold, buried just beneath the surface of our cities. Urbex photography comprises several subgenres, including those who document abandoned buildings (houses, hospitals, schools), mines, power plants, amusement parks, and more. Urban exploration, or “urbex” for short, has exploded in popularity in recent years, with everyone from archaeologists and historians to photographers setting out to find manmade, architectural ruins in cities around the globe. These are the moments that drive urban explorers to the ends of the earth, into abandoned buildings and underground caverns, across rooftops and tunnels. In the end, he brought home this long exposure of that unforgettable night beneath the stars. “We managed to reach the hardened aircraft shelters before we found the red tape warning us of all the land mines,” Mark says. It was cold enough to freeze his beard, but he continued on. He discovered this airbase (pictured above) by chance, and much of it had been destroyed in the Kosovo War, during the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. Above the mountain plateau was a crystal clear sky. One January night, Mark O’Neill braved -20☌ temperatures in search of forgotten places hidden within a frigid, silent landscape in Serbia.
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