Australian Abandoned Places, Urbex
When it comes to abandoned places in the world, Australia is not high up there on the list of places to travel but believe me we hold our own. There are still many untouched and decaying factories, crumbling asylums, rusty turbines of long disused power plants and houses being reclaimed by nature, around for us in the urban scene to explore and photograph before there gone.
Over the past few years I’ve been lucky enough to visit some amazing places before they were demolished or destroyed, meeting other like minded people that also have a passion for photographing abandoned buildings, along the way. Urbex has been a great way to make new friends as we get together on road trips to find new locations.
Finding new locations often leads to that excitement you haven’t felt since your childhood days. Once you find a location it opens a can of worms with you needing to know all you can on the place, why is it abandoned, the history behind it, what’s in its future, and so on.
So what do we do with years of photographs and the information we have spent endless hours researching? For some they’re locked away on hard drives never to be shared, others will post on YouTube handing the information to all the wrong people and wonder why something they enjoyed finding is now destroyed, others will post on social media with a little background and hope the location will stay protected.
For me, things started out with sharing images with small groups on forums, sharing information and learning the history. Then it went to social media and the scene became flooded with people but I did find inspiration in a few accounts. These accounts are what lead me to realising my first published book, Abandoned Brisbane: Our Lost Heritage. There’s a few books about these days when it comes to Australian abandoned places but the following are hands down my favourite!
Abandoned Brisbane: Our Lost Heritage
Of cause I have to give my own book a plug hehe grab your copy from Woodslane Press and use code JAYM15 for a 15%
Memories Of Australia by Matt Bushell.
Matt is killing it on the Australian scene at moment, this book is huge and i hear there may be more to come?… Be sure to keep an eye on Matt’s Instagram and check out his website www.mattamation.com
Shane is a top photographer that has been to some amazing places not only in Australia but around the word. Check out Shane’s Instagram.
These blogs will most likely focus around 4wding, camping and the outdoors but I am passionate about my photography and abandoned places so you might just see more blogs on them.
If you would like to see more of my images check out my Instagram @millardphotography or pop over to Flickr at J explores
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