Châtillon Car Graveyard: The Belgian Forest in the Old Photos
Rows of old cars beneath trees make a wonderfully unsettling picture. Branches replace the open road, leaves settle inside the vehicles and ...
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History: The Past Behind Remarkable Places
A place becomes more interesting when you understand something of the lives and events that shaped it. Follow historical stories and landmarks, with dates and context that distinguish an archival image from the present day.
Start with Châtillon Car Graveyard: The Belgian Forest in the Old Photos and Abandoned Places in Photos: What the Beautiful Images Miss.
Abandoned Places in Photos: What the Beautiful Images Miss
A room filling with sand, a ship carrying its own little forest, a house disappearing under vines: photographs of places changed by time can...
Fukushima in Photographs: Putting the 2015 Images in Context
Cars nearly disappear beneath leaves. An ordinary place becomes difficult to recognise. Arkadiusz Podniesiński’s Fukushima photographs are p...
Tsuneko Sasamoto: A Life of Looking Closely at Japan
Some photographers teach us where to look. Tsuneko Sasamoto also reminds us to keep looking: at public events, at changing streets and at th...
Past Present Project: Retracing a Grandfather’s Photos
Hold an old photograph in front of the place where it was taken, and two journeys briefly occupy the same view. A doorway lines up, a tree h...
Mount Nemrut: The Story Behind Turkey’s Giant Stone Heads
The faces are what you notice first. Enormous stone heads rest beneath the open sky, their features catching the light while the mountain fa...
9 Curious Places: The Stories Behind Their Strange Looks
A line drawn across a desert, a stone face rising from grass or a rock with a trail behind it can be wonderfully puzzling at first. The best...
10 Historic Towns for Exploring Medieval Heritage
An old gateway can change the rhythm of a walk. Beyond it, streets narrow, a tower appears and the arrangement of buildings begins to tell a...
6 Abandoned-Place Stories That Did Not End With the Photograph
An empty hall or a roof open to the sky can make a powerful photograph. It can also leave a misleading impression that the place’s story sto...
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6 Sacred Places: Architecture, History and a Thoughtful Visit
A sacred place can move you through its setting, its architecture or the quiet rhythm of people using it. You do not have to share a religio...
Larung Gar Through Shing Luk’s 2015 Photographs
Red dwellings cover the slopes in Shing Luk’s photographs of Larung Gar, near Sêrtar in Sichuan, China. From a distance they form an extraor...
Underwater Cities: Real Archaeology and the Yonaguni Debate
A doorway beneath water can make history feel unexpectedly close. Yet the phrase “underwater city” is used for very different things: floode...
UTA Flight 772 Memorial: The Story Behind the Desert Circle
In historical aerial photographs of Niger’s Ténéré Desert, a dark circle surrounds the outline of an aircraft. The design commemorates the 1...
6 History Trips: Choose a Base, Then Follow the Story
A history trip becomes easier to plan when you choose a question before a long list of monuments. Are you interested in how a city worked, h...