Lost America: The Night Photography of Troy Paiva

I found this fellow's website about a year ago, and have been following his work ever since. He is a photographer of abandoned places and things at night, and makes use of various lighting effects to achieve his pictures.

Troy has appeared on several television shows, and what he does, dubbed UrbEx (Urban Exploration) by his fellow photographers, is a movement which has a rapidly growing fanbase around the world.

His website: http://www.lostamerica.com/

His profile on Flickr (where his newest work is): http://www.flickr.com/photos/lostamerica/

Personal favourite:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3072/2534203924_9401b6e4f5_o.jpg
From its page: "Heavy-duty, post-war International Truck used as a cable and wire install vehicle at the Pearsonville, California Junkyard. The back of this truck opens like a roll-top desk and there's a huge spool in the rear. May be a one of a kind vehicle."

 

Those are amazing except for the rat, didn't care for that one, the rest- wow

 

Yes, the rat is very odd . I still don't get why he was motivated to take a picture of it.

I find it slightly eerie that quite a number of what he has taken pictures of has been torn down or has disappeared.

 

Nice picts! The lights inside the buildings get a bit repetitive, but very nice stuff.

E

 

I had preordered a copy of Troy's new book, "Night Vision", and it arrived today. It can be described with one word: WOW. :cool

 

Thats what I like, for some reason old abandon gas stations in the desert, old barns, have no idea why.
Enjoy your new book

 

I'm one of the few in my family who doesn't think stuff that's old and abandoned is a blight on the landscape - most of my cousins think I'm weird :-D. I wonder about the stories behind all these places - who built them? What was this place like in its heyday? Why was it abandoned?

I have found one thing wrong with the book - it doesn't have enough pictures in it! :cry. The whole book is done in dark tones, with black for all the page backgrounds - it makes the pictures seem to jump out at you .