![]() ![]() I was always longing for the sense of adventure exploring nowadays gives me. I knew instantly: this was what I want to do – find places like this. Standing on top of one of the residential buildings and looking down at the abandoned city of Pripyat where 50000 people used to live and now seeing how Mother Nature reclaimed it, was a light-switch moment, a truly life-changing event. It’s a very long story how I ended up there but the main point was what happened to me over there. Everything changed for me when I went on a tour of Chornobyl. There was always something new that would spark my interest but I was never able to focus on a certain topic for a long time. That’s a very intriguing question for me to answer as I frequently ask myself the same question. Where does your passion for exploring abandoned places come from? Greg traveled across nearly every Chinese province, from Inner Mongolia in the north to Yunnan in the south, stopping in over 100 cities, towns, and villages along the way.įeatured image: An abandoned train dating back to the Sino-Japanese War The images and stories have been collected in a book out this month called Abandoned China (Book 1), published by Jonk Editions. From 2018 to 2021 he visited some suggestive and evocative abandoned places in China such as space stations, military depots, cities, theme parks, and power plants. Greg is an urban explorer and photographer.
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