One last big post and then I promise I'll go back to regular UK derpy sites ha...
Here is a little roundup of the other stuff I saw, the smaller sites/things that don't deserve their own threads. It's a right mix of stuff as I'm sure you'll see, starting with a trio of southern churches.
This building was once a Y.M.C.A. for a military base, in later life it became a kind of police-run community/social centre and now sits abandoned on the partially active military base
The last time Edward Koch was Mayor of NYC was in 1989 which gives some indication how long it's been empty for!
Next up was a Synagogue I had wanted to shoot for ages. We knew it had a load of squatters living in it so didn't really know what to expect on arrival. After getting in the first thing we heard was a fridge humming away and from the next room a radio blaring very loudly. We pushed open the door into the dark room and it appeared empty until a grey cat wandered towards us! Luckily there was nobody home but I must say it is the tidiest, most well-kept squat I've ever seen considering how many beds there were. Everything neat and bagged up, no drugs, everyone with their own space. Whoever is choosing to live there is respecting the building and keeping it safe from mindless idiots - by all accounts the occupiers are friendly towards photographers who want to shoot inside the buillding but we didn't get a chance to find out. In a way it was weird, like we were invading some people's private house so we didn't stay too long.
Last up is the final explore of my trip. After the pair of power stations we were heading homewards and decided to stop off at somewhere I had wanted to shoot for years, ever since I started going to the States. It's official designation is a temple, but it has gone under various names. By the time we got here early in the evening I had been awake since 2.30am and had had no more than two hours sleep in the last two days, and it was absolutely hammering it down with rain so as you can imagine I was totally hanging and not feeling it at all. I ended up dragging my near-lifeless body around here trying to frame shots correctly and light paint them but finding it almost too mentally taxing to think about so the end result was a handful of really crap photos from somewhere I had wanted to see forever - never mind, I'll just have to go back. I never even noticed the large drop of water on the lens at the time.
Also I'm gutted I never got in here before the two absolute tits tagged the stage curtain a year or so ago, bastards.
After that, and a further drive through shit weather I was crashed out in my hotel for the night - and the next day was the saddest of all as I flew home!
Cheers for looking
Here is a little roundup of the other stuff I saw, the smaller sites/things that don't deserve their own threads. It's a right mix of stuff as I'm sure you'll see, starting with a trio of southern churches.
This building was once a Y.M.C.A. for a military base, in later life it became a kind of police-run community/social centre and now sits abandoned on the partially active military base
The last time Edward Koch was Mayor of NYC was in 1989 which gives some indication how long it's been empty for!
Next up was a Synagogue I had wanted to shoot for ages. We knew it had a load of squatters living in it so didn't really know what to expect on arrival. After getting in the first thing we heard was a fridge humming away and from the next room a radio blaring very loudly. We pushed open the door into the dark room and it appeared empty until a grey cat wandered towards us! Luckily there was nobody home but I must say it is the tidiest, most well-kept squat I've ever seen considering how many beds there were. Everything neat and bagged up, no drugs, everyone with their own space. Whoever is choosing to live there is respecting the building and keeping it safe from mindless idiots - by all accounts the occupiers are friendly towards photographers who want to shoot inside the buillding but we didn't get a chance to find out. In a way it was weird, like we were invading some people's private house so we didn't stay too long.
Last up is the final explore of my trip. After the pair of power stations we were heading homewards and decided to stop off at somewhere I had wanted to shoot for years, ever since I started going to the States. It's official designation is a temple, but it has gone under various names. By the time we got here early in the evening I had been awake since 2.30am and had had no more than two hours sleep in the last two days, and it was absolutely hammering it down with rain so as you can imagine I was totally hanging and not feeling it at all. I ended up dragging my near-lifeless body around here trying to frame shots correctly and light paint them but finding it almost too mentally taxing to think about so the end result was a handful of really crap photos from somewhere I had wanted to see forever - never mind, I'll just have to go back. I never even noticed the large drop of water on the lens at the time.
Also I'm gutted I never got in here before the two absolute tits tagged the stage curtain a year or so ago, bastards.
After that, and a further drive through shit weather I was crashed out in my hotel for the night - and the next day was the saddest of all as I flew home!
Cheers for looking
