Johnny Joo’s photographs of abandoned locations give insight to a life after humans, but his work has a much deeper meaning than that.
The remains of abandoned Town and buildings have provided divine guidance for countless revulsion films and good afternoon excursion to the fringe of town . But 25 - year - sometime photographer Johnny Joo know that empty place can offer much more than that : peach .
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Joo ’s desert location photography stanch from a passion for escapade . Joo — who cites creative person such as Salvador Dalí , Hayao Miyazaki , Jack Vettriano , and Gregory Crewdson as brainchild — started photographing these sites in 2006 , and state that doing so allows him to show others an unknown and forgotten world amid everyday life .
The morgue of an abandoned asylum.
" When I started photographing abandoned structures , " Joo said , " there was n’t as much of a presence of ' urbex ' or ' urban geographic expedition , ' and it was simply just adventuring , finding cool places and photographing them to document them along with everything else in life . "
For Joo , that " adventuring " has meantexploring a 28 - building asylum complexstraight out of a horror movie – loaded with tick and musty walls , inhabited only by stacks of aesculapian records from a time when the mentally ill were address with disregard . Each internet site Joo explores has a distinctive humor , which in a way anthropomorphizes them . " The complex body part become a victim ; a puppet to nature ’s decay , " Joo pen when explain the photographs in his Koran " Empty Spaces . "
The wider scope of Joo ’s artistry is n’t about the inevitability of death and decomposition , though ; it is about human connexion .
" I require to be able to reach people and truly bring more people together in life , " Joo read . " I need to partake art , human interaction , creative thinking . We ’re all in this together , we may as well take the chance given to pass and larn . Without using that , we are wasting so much . "
To pick up more about Joo ’s artwork – include his photography , committal to writing and videography – mark off out his blogArchitectural Afterlifeand hisYouTube Thomas Nelson Page Urbex US .
