Abandoned & Industrial Photography
by Björn Sahlberg
December 2018 – January 2019
I was happy to be a part of Galleri Mellanrum's two year anniversary exhibition with Countdown or countup, that's the question as a wall paper.
December 31, 2018
An afternoon in a valley of industrial remains in southern Spain. Poppies ahead!
Alicante, Spain.
December 9, 2018
New collection in the making! First batch of photos from brief stops while on the road through former eastern Germany.
Former DDR, Germany.
December 2, 2018
The last negatives from the 2011 visit to Soviet Military Base V unearthed, scanned and posted.
November 23, 2018
A rumble through a lush jungle (read: former park) later a slowly folding palace appeared before them.
France.
Autumn 2018
With more and more device screens being such high resoluton, why should this ol' website be any less. Many of the albums have recenctly been adapted to these crisp circumstances and if you wish to escape it a floating back-to-the-top button has been added.
March 25, 2018
Album freshly adaptified and – of course – photos slightly reworked in the process.
February 25, 2018
What happens in the deep woods of Värmland does not stay in the deep woods of Värmland. Especially when there are subtle photogenic hues to capture.
February 25, 2018
Reworked the pictures, updated the background info and re-hacked the innards of this grand raw sugar mill.
February 25, 2018
Two additions to two collections from the same location posted at the same time! There's a first for everything.
February 25, 2018
As the old mountain hotel has been replaced by villas its (not too secret) full name can now be revealed to the world.
January 1, 2018
A new tour of sceneries from crumbling or novel industrial sites around Stockholm.
Sweden.
December 29, 2017
If lacking a door, what else to use than a discarded sofa.
December 23, 2017
Added a basic search function! Give it a try here or by clicking that looking glass in the top navigation. If it's appreciated I'll incorporate it in some kind of smoother way in the future.
December 17, 2017
Premiere post with pictures taken with the Topcon Horseman 980. From a total of eight frames the ones posted here were the only acceptable (and not accidentally double exposed) ones.
December 17, 2017
The newest recruit to the united labourers of Aska. Tilt-shift and medium format in a conveniently compact and retro cool kit. Yes, it's tricky to use. Yes, it's slow to use. And yes, it's great fun to use!
July 1, 2017
Guest appearance by my good friend Pavel who sent a couple of postcards from the town of Blanca in Spain. And another one from Ulvsunda by yours truly.
June 28, 2017
A few shots from my very first visit to the derelict housing area Hästhagen in Söderfors.
June 11, 2017
A couple of loos from the exercise yard of one of Sweden's most (in)famous mental asylums.
March 23, 2017
Since long abandoned but recently scorched little farm in Uppland.
March 19, 2017
I had missed an entire roll with shots from the Kakelfabriken in France! Mistake mended and album updated now.
March 18, 2017
A set from the vaults added to the collection of Swedish ruralness. Worker's housing and crashing boiler houses ahead.
February 18, 2017
A newly furnished home for my collections of Swedish melancholy and crumbling sites around the country. More to come ...
Rural Sweden.
February 18, 2017
An excursion through a sizeable and derelict tile and mosaic factory.
France.
January 25, 2017
A healthy dose of urban junge among the last barracks standing in this once huge military compound.
Düsseldorf, Germany.
January 25, 2017
Yet another collection added! Fading commodities and flaking facilites in a wide variety of age, style and location. And cleanliness.
Everywhere.
January 6, 2017
(Formerly known as #verlassene_lampen.)
New tagged collection! You have to excuse my fancy for the abandoned lamps of the former DDR ... or even better – share it! Some hints on albums to come in there as well.
Former DDR, Germany. Mostly.
2016 visitor statistics ... favorite
Users: 2217 / Sessions: 2925 / Page views: 5795 / Page p. session: 1,98 / Session length: 00:01:09
November 27, 2016
An old warehouse by the harbour filled with an impressive collection of yesteryear's fire trucks.
France.
November 25, 2016
The messy appearance of each album's tech info has annoyed me for some time. So instead of working on the next album there's been a bit of design and HTML hacking going on.
October 25, 2016
What to do with a whole stack of industrial pipe pics from Jordberga sockerbruk other than making some curtains for work?
October 24, 2016
Arenastaden updated with a bit more info. Also pics from the exhibition Innan arenan, efter Råsunda added.
October, 2016
Some hacking underneath the hood taking place. Added a mug shot of yours truly for a more personal experience (?) and tweaked navigation a notch.
October 20, 2016
Summer excursion to a little industrial gem on the country side.
Uppland, Sweden.
September 29, 2016
New pics added to Råsundastadion Arena. Sprutbetong and forgotten footballs ahead!
March 07, 2016
As among the last persons with a camera I finally visited this huge and famous car cementary in the deep Värmlandian woods.
Värmland, Sweden.
February 22, 2016
SchlossjagdSchloss Raben Steinfeld updated with the last palace from the grand tour of 2011.
Former DDR, Germany.
January 17, 2016
Fading 17th century palace on the French countryside with some heavy bass beats to it.
Somewhere in France.
January 3, 2016
Tools & tech updated with some basic camera info.
January 2, 2016
Flaking military airbase with hangars that play a mysterious tune when the wind is right.
Former DDR, Germany.
2015 visitor statistics ... insert_emoticon
Users: 3382 / Sessions: 2778 / Page views: 8400 / Page p. session: 2,48 / Session length: 00:01:18
December 30, 2015
The last remains of an enormous spinning mill in France.
Normandy, France.
December 28, 2015
In an entangled French forest this once glistening gem sleeps.
Somewhere in France.
Autum 2015
Plenty of work underneath the hood of Aska. Been at work on the album structure, navigation and tuning the responsivness.
March, 2015
No end to the responsiveness! Arenastaden / Solna Badlands, Schlossjagd, Hotel Verlassene Tannenbaum, Råsundastadion, The Whaling Station and Möbelfabriken all niftyfied.
February 24, 2015
Smältverket goes all responsive. As an adjustment to modern times I'm starting to update the code to work better on various screen sizes. The abandoned foundry is first one out.
February 8, 2015
Once upon a time at Smältverket! Added a few photos from the foundry's days of glory.
February 7, 2015
Once the pride of the city this abandoned foundry was famous for its cast iron wood stoves, dairy industry appliances and various household appliances. Now famous for its utterly dirty interiors.
Sweden.
2014 visitor statistics ... thumb_up (Only June-December available)
Users: 1414 / Sessions: 1717 / Page views: 4984 / Page p. session: 2,9 / Session length: 00:01:10
December 25, 2014
The area in northern Stockholm where the Friends Arena now stands. Formerly a slowly degenerating industrial zone, fomerly one of Stockholm's many garbage dumps.
Stockholm, Sweden.
September 21, 2014
Another accommodation on the rural side of former DDR left on its own.
Former DDR, Germany.
September 19, 2014
Samples from my first two ventures into the countryside of former DDR.
Germany.
June 29, 2014
On the island of São Miguel of the Azores lay the remains of this whaling station.
The Azores, Portugal.
June 29, 2014
A small cement mill in the Ulvsunda industrial zone just before being completely demolished.
Stockholm, Sweden.
June 1, 2014
Just before the demolition begun in 2013 I got the chance to photograph the old sports arena in Solna outside of Stockholm.
Stockholm, Sweden.
May 20, 2014
ASKA.nu has been moved to a new server and while at it also moved from ASP Classic to classic HTML.
April 20, 2014
Push processed black and white action from the damp depths of secretive world war manufacturing.
March 8, 2014
Tweaked the Highslide feature for the albums half-a-notch. Prefer to keep captions not floating.
February 23, 2014
Added nifty drop-down navigation thinge in top right corner.
February 8, 2014
In the marsh lands of southern Småland rests the remains of the famous Kyrkö mosse car cemetary.
Småland, Sweden.
February 4, 2014
An empty watch factory in northern France.
Saint-Nicolas-d'Aliermont, Normandy, France.
January 25, 2014
A long neglected and eventually abandoned palace in Picardie, northern France.
France.
January 23, 2014
Added a link to The Work of Castor. Moody rural exploration on stills and on video – Highly recommended!
January 23, 2014
An afternoon stroll by the docks of this small city in northern Germany proved fruitful.
Former DDR, Germany.
January 22, 2014
Some snapshots added to Beckholmen & Djurgårdsvarvet.
January 19, 2014
A stroll in the forests of the former DDR, Germany. Kalasjnikov monuments ahead!
Former DDR, Germany.
January, 2014
In the beginning this site was a real shape shifter. Added a few samples of the old designs here.
2013 visitor statistics ... star
Users: 1937 / Sessions: 2151 / Page views: 12126 / Page p. session: 5,64 / Session length: 00:01:30
December 31, 2013
They may have lacked plenty in DDR, but various types of ceiling lamps they did have.
Former DDR, Germany.
November & December 2013
New albums, new code, same old buildings! Much under-the-hood work is going on! Gotten rid of stacks of stale code, widened the layout, remade the front page and added a number of new albums, etc. Aiming for nothing less than the dawn of a new era.
December 8, 2009
First fresh album in a while and the first shot with medium format analog gear.
April 28, 2009
Tegelbruket all flashy. After some looking around I finally came across a simple, no bull, flash slideshow app. My first serious attempt with it can be seen in this album overview. More to come!
October 12, 2008
Album posted! Will one day be completed with the surrounding buildings such as the director's house, fire station and worker's housing. Also need to do some further research.
October 5, 2008
The Great Highslide® Implementation continues. Stripa Mine and Stora Vika cementfabrik have now been Highslidified and all the pics reworked.
September 21, 2008
Highslide® picture browsing feature implemented. Reworked the Fredriksbergs pappersbruk using the fantastic Highslide® and also touched up a chunk of the high resolution versions. Some refinement still needed.
September 12, 2008
After completely reworking the pics originally posted on Flickr plus touching up the navigation a tad bit I finally got this album together.
August 8, 2008
My first serious foray into the world of faux B&W. Reworked these pics from the mine's bottom to headframe roof top more than twice.
March 21, 2008
After many years on ice Aska is now back in gear! Just like when the site was launched in 1999 it'll be a home for my abandoned and – in time – industrial photography. The albums will be connected with my main account on Flickr (now old, note on November 11, 2013) and most likely very little will be shown here that's not already on Flickr. Flickr sure has its pros but also some cons that made me start up this site again, besides the fun of running a place of my own.
November 9, 1999
Soon after the very first album UL 13 Antuna is posted. The rest is history.