Wednesday, May 18, 2016

This hot thing called ruins porn.

During a recent conversation with a still photographer regarding the ups and downs of large sensors installed into Canon cameras and the depth of field problem that it causes, I was introduced to a term I'd never heard of before regarding the documentation of decrepit buildings and fallen neighborhoods (like Detroit) - Ruins Porn. lol. Ruins photography, sometimes called ruins porn, is a recent movement in photography that takes the decline of the built-environment (cities, buildings, infrastructure) as its subject.

article link: http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/12/architecture/what-ruin-porn-tells-us-about-ruins-and-porn/



sample 'ruin porn' images:
http://ruinporn.tumblr.com