Freshly decayed

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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.

An afternoon in a valley of industrial remains in southern Spain. Poppies ahead!

Alicante, Spain.

New collection in the making! First batch of photos from brief stops while on the road through former eastern Germany.

Former DDR, Germany.

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The last negatives from the 2011 visit to Soviet Military Base V unearthed, scanned and posted.

A rumble through a lush jungle (read: former park) later a slowly folding palace appeared before them.

France.

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.

Album freshly adaptified and – of course – photos slightly reworked in the process.

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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.

Reworked the pictures, updated the background info and re-hacked the innards of this grand raw sugar mill.

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Two additions to two collections from the same location posted at the same time! There's a first for everything.

As the old mountain hotel has been replaced by villas its (not too secret) full name can now be revealed to the world.

A new tour of sceneries from crumbling or novel industrial sites around Stockholm.

Sweden.

If lacking a door, what else to use than a discarded sofa.

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.

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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.

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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!

One from the vaults that I stumbled across.

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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.

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A few shots from my very first visit to the derelict housing area Hästhagen in Söderfors.

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A couple of loos from the exercise yard of one of Sweden's most (in)famous mental asylums.

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Since long abandoned but recently scorched little farm in Uppland.

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I had missed an entire roll with shots from the Kakelfabriken in France! Mistake mended and album updated now.

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A set from the vaults added to the collection of Swedish ruralness. Worker's housing and crashing boiler houses ahead.

A newly furnished home for my collections of Swedish melancholy and crumbling sites around the country. More to come ...

Rural Sweden.

An excursion through a sizeable and derelict tile and mosaic factory.

France.

A healthy dose of urban junge among the last barracks standing in this once huge military compound.

Düsseldorf, Germany.

Yet another collection added! Fading commodities and flaking facilites in a wide variety of age, style and location. And cleanliness.

Everywhere.

(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.

An old warehouse by the harbour filled with an impressive collection of yesteryear's fire trucks.

France.

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.

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.

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!

As among the last persons with a camera I finally visited this huge and famous car cementary in the deep Värmlandian woods.

Värmland, Sweden.

SchlossjagdSchloss Raben Steinfeld updated with the last palace from the grand tour of 2011.

Former DDR, Germany.

Fading 17th century palace on the French countryside with some heavy bass beats to it.

Somewhere in France.

Flaking military airbase with hangars that play a mysterious tune when the wind is right.

Former DDR, Germany.

The last remains of an enormous spinning mill in France.

Normandy, France.

In an entangled French forest this once glistening gem sleeps.

Somewhere in France.

October 4, 2015

Möbelfabriken enriched with a few informative (?) pics.

March, 2015

No end to the responsiveness! Arenastaden / Solna Badlands, Schlossjagd, Hotel Verlassene Tannenbaum, Råsundastadion, The Whaling Station and Möbelfabriken all niftyfied.

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.

Once upon a time at Smältverket! Added a few photos from the foundry's days of glory.

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.

New collection! Misplaced, abandoned sofas and easy chairs. Everywhere.

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.

Another accommodation on the rural side of former DDR left on its own.

Former DDR, Germany.

Samples from my first two ventures into the countryside of former DDR.

Germany.

On the island of São Miguel of the Azores lay the remains of this whaling station.

The Azores, Portugal.

A small cement mill in the Ulvsunda industrial zone just before being completely demolished.

Stockholm, Sweden.

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 21, 2014

Freshly scanned additions from the gun powder factory's boiler room and restroom.

Push processed black and white action from the damp depths of secretive world war manufacturing.

In the marsh lands of southern Småland rests the remains of the famous Kyrkö mosse car cemetary.

Småland, Sweden.

Black and white image from the innards of a Kodak Brownie addded to Sågverket.

An empty watch factory in northern France.

Saint-Nicolas-d'Aliermont, Normandy, France.

A long neglected and eventually abandoned palace in Picardie, northern France.

France.

January 25, 2014

Once upon a time Hotel Verlassene Lampen gave a different impression than today.

An afternoon stroll by the docks of this small city in northern Germany proved fruitful.

Former DDR, Germany.

A stroll in the forests of the former DDR, Germany. Kalasjnikov monuments ahead!

Former DDR, Germany.

Some of my photos made it elsewhere.

In the beginning this site was a real shape shifter. Added a few samples of the old designs here.

They may have lacked plenty in DDR, but various types of ceiling lamps they did have.

Former DDR, Germany.

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.