Macassar beach pavilion, Cape Town, South Africa © Helena Krige

Abandoned truck, Connecticut © Alan Pittman

Gaswork station, Warsaw, Poland © Tomasz Gotfryd

This group show proves photographer’s fascination with the lonely and forgotten. We were overwhelmed with the number of submissions, receiving almost 600 images total from all over the globe. Will Ellis, photographer and curator of Abandoned NYC,  was our judge for this call. It was a challenge to narrow them down, but we are pleased to present 50 photographs of the world’s most abandoned spaces.

Congratulations to Helena Krige, Alan Pittman and Tomasz Gotfryd, who will receive a one-year subscription to Squarespace, the innovative website publishing platform perfect for the creative. They make it simple to create professional websites that are 100% customizable, making web design accessible to everyone. Complete with award-winning designs, hosting, domains, commerce, and 24/7 support, Squarespace offers photographers more ways to market themselves and grow their business.

Nevskaia zastava, Russia, St. Petersburg © Ekaterina Vasilyeva

Cooling tower, Belgium © Guillaume Ducreux

Beauty day at the Pines Resort, South Fallsburg, New York © Karen Newman

Beelitz Heilstätten (war hospital/sanatorium), Brandenburg, Germany © Adam Ballhaussen

A basketball hall in a German military camp. The painting on the wall hints that this was used during the Nazi olympics of 1936 © Darren Nisbett

Theater, Havana, Cuba © Debi Cornwall

Castle, Belgium © Guillaume Ducreux

Port Arthur, Texas © Jody Domingue

House on Admiral’s Row, Brooklyn Navy Yard, NY © Ramsay de Give

Locker room, packaging house, Brooklyn Domino Sugar Refinery, NY © Paul Raphaelson

Coal mine, western Germany. There a thousands of cages hanging at the ceiling © Christiaan Lukkien

la Petite Ceinture, vanishing railroad track, Paris, France © Pierre Folk

Old Hospital, Tanga, Tanzania © Tristan Edsall

Orkney, Scotland © Claire Maxwell

Bradlees, Manchester, Connecticut © Charlotte Canner

Fallen Screen, Proctor’s Theater, New Jersey © Lindsay Blair Brown

Zandeken village which disappeared in the expansion of the harbor of Ghent, Belgium © Bruyneel Tjorven

Iraqi Embassy, Berlin, Germany © Simson Petrol

Incinerator #3, Montreal, Canada © Frederic Ansermoz

Cold cuts, Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, New York © C. Bay Milin

Catania, Italy © Salvatore Fiorenza

Luxury home that caught fire, Adelaide, Australia © Bri Hammond

Rock River, WY © Paul Sisson

Rose chapel, Belgium © Dimitri Castrique

Hotel, Berlin, Germany © Patrick Morarescu

B-52 Bomber sitting under the full moon in an undisclosed California desert © Amy Heiden

Abandoned raceway, Trentham outside Wellington City, New Zealand © Ambrose Benedict

Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY, 3rd Ave & 3rd Street (now Whole Foods) © Miska Draskoczy

Kolmanskop, former diamond mining village, Sperrgebiet, Namibia © Marita van Rooyen

Fukushima Exclusion Zone, Japan © Andrea Bonisoli Alquati

Founded by St. Francis from Assisi in 1222, used as a hospital from 1874 to 1994, Terracina , Italy © Ettore Maragoni

A bathroom sink frozen in time on the second floor of an abandoned hotel in upstate New York © Kathryn Nee

Soccer field, Willemstad, Curacao (the dutch Antilles) © Joëlle de Vries

Mountain house, Zakopane, Poland © Gabriela Kaszycka

“Hospital X”, New York © Deejay Forte

Small mining town, Acland, Australia © Chris Bowes

French Navy hospital, Rochefort en mer, France © Christophe le Potier

Luxury home that caught fire, Adelaide, Australia © Bri Hammond

Barber shop, Otrobanda, Curacao (the dutch Antilles) © Joëlle de Vries

Spreepark, an East Berlin-era amusement recently destroyed by a fire, Germany © Beto Ruiz Alonso

Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada © Anica James

Auditorium, Alderwood Collegiate Institute, Toronto, Ontario © Andrew Etchen

Iron factory, Diósgy?r, Hungary © Ágnes Básthy

Abandoned truck, Connecticut © Alan Pittman

Abandoned school, North West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania © Frank W. Saylor

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