I’m urban exploration photographer Dave of Freaktography.com, and this is the story of how I found two sets of forgotten war medals in an abandoned house (and what I decided to do with them). Some time ago I was sent a new abandoned location to check out by a person on Instagram. The photos she […]
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In the last couple of years, I have traveled often to Germany in a search for abandoned ballrooms and you would be surprised how many there are. In the past, almost every German village had a local hotel and almost all of them had a ballroom. boredpanda.com »
2019-10-16 17:50
A conservancy official in New York City was cleaning out an office in late 2017 when they came across two cardboard boxes. Inside were 2,924 color slide photos of NYC parks, shot in 1978 and then forgotten for exactly 40 years. petapixel.com »
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Joe Rosenthal, the photographer who captured the iconic war image Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, has had a block in downtown San Francisco named after him. [Read More]
A years-long investigation has uncovered the identity of a photographer who risked his life taking hundreds of pictures of Nazi Occupied France -- and paid the price for it. [Read More]
The History Channel has released an absorbing video about the life and career of photographer Lee Miller that is narrated by Kate Winslet. [Read More]
An original print of a famous portrait of Winston Churchill has been recovered in Italy after it was stolen from an Ottawa, Canada hotel more than two years ago. [Read More]
The trailer for a documentary about the photographer Roman Vishinac -- who is best known for documenting Jewish life in Eastern Europe in the years prior to World War II -- has been released. [Read More]
This mind-bending World War II photograph with "floating trees" may look like it is an optical illusion or cloned on Photoshop -- but it is actually a real image. [Read More]
Navy photographer Mickey Strand, who served for 24 years before retiring in 2009, has captured portraits of more than 115 World War II veterans since 2017. Of those, only 10 to 15 are still with us today, which shows the urgency of moving forward before it's too late. [Read More]