Photography of the Unexpected and Neglected Architecture

Posted on December 4, 2007 by Pete Ashton

Photography of the Unexpected and Neglected Architecture by Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre. This presses so many of my buttons I might actually explode. Beautiful photographs of monolithic buildings in various stages of decay. The Ruins of Detroit series in particular is quite awe inspiring. I’m curious as to how he achieves the crisp effect with the interiors. There’s certainly some post-processing involved but how much of the original was done with flash or long exposure or both? More Yves Marchand’s work here. via fffound or tumblr or something like that.

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7 Responses to Photography of the Unexpected and Neglected Architecture

  1. Ken Davidson says:
    December 4, 2007 at 10:10 pm

    Some of them look like they may be HDR images to me, but done carefully to eliminate the halo effect. There’s certainly some compression going on…

  2. Vigs says:
    December 5, 2007 at 12:24 am

    There’s some space in Detroit I’d like to reclaim… can you imagine the mischief: http://reliques.online.fr/detroit/detroit06.html

  3. Vigs says:
    December 5, 2007 at 12:26 am

    Mind you, not sure about going to the dentists there….

  4. Vigs says:
    December 5, 2007 at 12:32 am

    Ok… buggering off after this one…

    How to Shut Me Up (But only after a bit of mad dusting):

    http://reliques.online.fr/detroit/detroit12.html

    Pretty. Just pretty.

  5. Vince says:
    December 5, 2007 at 1:15 am

    I would say deffo HDR. Still very nice though!

  6. matt b says:
    December 5, 2007 at 8:26 pm

    Hi Pete,
    I lived in the inner city of Detroit when I was about three and it made a big impression on me. It still seems to look pretty much as it was then, though the photographic technique makes it look more aesthetic, as opposed to viscerally terrifying, which is what it actually is.

  7. Pete Ashton says:
    December 6, 2007 at 12:33 am

    Well, those photos look pretty viscerally terrifying to me so god knows what they’re like in reality!