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| Abandoned locomotives and carriages in Budapest. The derelict engine shed is located in the middle of a working train depot. Photo by: David de Rueda |
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| Linnahall, a former concert hall in Tallinn. The 5,000-seat auditorium was only built in 1980, for the Moscow Olympic Games, but was last used in 2008. Photo by David de Rueda |
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| Two Soviet-era Buran space shuttles at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. ‘This image is the result of 180km of off-road driving in the Kazakhstan desert, followed by 45km of walking in a highly restricted area … two relics of the Soviet space race in a huge abandoned warehouse.’ Photo by: David de Rueda |
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| A room at Pripyat’s abandoned Hospital No 126. In the basement are the suits worn by the firemen who went to Chernobyl after the explosion, which still have a lethal dose of radiation. Photo by: David de Rueda |
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| An abandoned radar station in the Alps. Photo by: David de Rueda |
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| Inside the abandoned Kelenföld power plant near Budapest. Built in 1914, it provided electricity to the capital until 2007. Photo by: David de Rueda |
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| A disused experimental power facility near Moscow, which was closely guarded by half a dozen dogs. Photo by: David de Rueda |
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| In a deserted area of Iceland’s south coast lies the wreck of a 1940s Douglas DC-3 aircraft. David de Rueda said: ‘I arrived there at 4am and, as we waited, polar lights gradually appeared on the horizon.‘I admired this magic show until dawn and used a 90-second exposure, with some light painting added inside the plane, to capture this image.’ |
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| The Buzludzha monument explored at night. The crumbling tribute to the formation of the Bulgarian Social Democratic party in 1891 is on the top of the Buzludzha mountain, which was the scene of a battle between Bulgarian nationalists and Ottoman forces. Photo by: David de Rueda |
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| A structure near Sofia, which David de Rueda compares to an Escher drawing |
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| The abandoned power plant near Budapest. Photo by: David de Rueda |
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| An abandoned ferris wheel in Pripyat, the town that used to house many of the workers at the Chernobyl nuclear plant. Only 3km from the site of the disaster, Pripyat was evacuated 36 hours after the explosions. Photo by: David de Rueda |
Source: Abandoned places – in pictures
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