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Vintage photographs of shopping centres in their fountains-and-ferns prime, scanned from postcards and other people's family albums.
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Malls of America sits in Liminal Spaces under Weird, and we have it filed as coffee break — five to fifteen minutes of proper attention. It reads as nostalgic and mesmerising.
Photographs of places with nobody in them: dead malls, empty pools, corridors at 3am. An aesthetic that has no right to be this affecting.
Photographic essays on ruined institutions that are far more interested in why the places closed than in the broken glass.
Guided write-ups of the city's empty hospitals, airfields and amusement parks, complete with directions and a note on the fence situation.
Field reports and photographs of American shopping centres in decline, written by people who cared about this long before it was an aesthetic.
Photographs of the city's abandoned schools and factories, paired with the records of the people who taught and worked in them.
Street-level archaeology of the city — old lamp posts, painted signs and vanished railways, walked and documented since 1999.
Long-form expeditions into Japan's abandoned mines, hotels and theme parks, written by somebody who actually climbed in.
Directory of the emptied-out settlements of the American West, one short paragraph and one faded photograph at a time.
The channel that turned the Backrooms into found footage, shot with unnervingly good camera work and almost no music.