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I found this amazing abandoned house outside of Bostwick, GA shortly after moving to Atlanta. It was only this past week that I was able to develop the film I shot inside the house.
What’s crazy is I was watching that new show Vanished on Fox and saw what I believe is the exterior and interior of that house in the first episode. If you’ve seen it, it’s the scene where they’re across the street from a house and looking for signs of life inside with some kind of heat sensing binoculars. When they enter the house, they find a dead body on the second floor.
So after seeing that episode, I was compelled to revisit the house, even though it’s something like 70 miles from our apartment. It’s a pretty creepy place, but it’s on a main roadway, so there’s plenty of traffic driving by all the time. The doors are completely open, and the house is emptied out. There are something like 6 or 8 fireplaces, and 9 or 10 rooms. And no one seems to know what the deal is with it.
Since Google Maps is awesome, you can see this house via the satellite view. The other buildings around it are all abandoned as well, but I don’t believe they’re associated.
September 17th, 2006 at 1:51 am
What a great place. I dream of finding somewhere like that. I love all the squares/rectangles within squares in the compositon.
September 17th, 2006 at 3:12 am
Thanks Miles. I have an abundance of images from this place that I’ll be posting over the next few days. I’m tempted to just publish them all at once.
September 17th, 2006 at 9:50 am
Mmmm, I really like this. Although it’s completely empty it’s still full of soul and narrative potential. There are just subtle hints that it’s abandoned, like the leaves on the floor, the dirty frosted glass and the imperfections in the wallpaper/wall. I can’t wait to see the rest. How did the first week of classes go?
September 18th, 2006 at 1:20 pm
empty/abandoned houses are just a joy to behold…..I love the symmetry of this….black and white…perfect. Phil
October 11th, 2006 at 3:44 pm
This is a wonderful image it positively drips memories from the screen onto my desk, I love the composition you have chosen and the framing is excellent, great shot. You have some wonderful images here my friend…