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A portal into another life: Photographing America's abandoned homes
Bryan Sansivero has documented millions of abandoned U.S. homes with haunting interiors and unique histories, publishing a book after a decade of slow, film-based urban exploration.
- Bryan Sansivero, a New York-based photographer, spent a decade documenting forgotten, dilapidated homes across the United States, published in his book America the Abandoned: Captivating Portraits of Deserted Homes.
- Amid a monetized 'urbex' trend, Bryan Sansivero focuses on private residences, saying they offer a portal into another life, and he avoids social media's instinct to exploit tragic stories.
- Inside many houses, objects remain as if time stopped, with musty libraries, unretrieved coffee mugs, grand pianos and half-full liquor bottles, and eerie collections like vintage dollhouses and life-sized mermaid mannequins.
- Instead of chasing virality, Sansivero uses medium-format film while maintaining a large Instagram audience and faces hazards like mold and decaying floors during his treks.
- Sansivero says the book is a pause rather than an end to his work, as he continues weeklong trips to the South and Midwest and explores chateaus and castles in Europe.
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