Field Journal · 25 Entries
Ruins, lost roads and the silence left behind. A photographer's field journal of abandoned places and brutalist architecture — recorded before they are gone.
Enter the index
Ninety-nine domes and a cage of metal lattice in Pristina — the National Library of Kosovo, one of the most argued-about buildings anywhere.
A resort complex on the shore of Lake Sevan at 1,900 metres — two towers standing apart on the grass, a hundred metres of colonnade, and one whole facade built out of stacked concrete rings, all of it faced in pink volcanic tuff. None of it was ever finished. No glass, no floors, no guests — just decades of weather and one loose sheet of roofing working in the wind.
Fifty-four metres of mirror set into a hillside at 1,700 metres, four thousand panels, a five-metre secondary hanging over the bowl — and nothing wrong with any of it. Switched off in 2012, and nothing has come through it since. It hasn't been abandoned, though. People are still fighting to get it running, and still waiting for someone to fund it.
A Soviet regional jet standing on concrete blocks on a shelf of basalt above the Kasagh gorge, nowhere near an airport. Built in 1977 to work grass and dirt strips, retired in 1997, then hauled up onto a cliff by somebody who left no record of why.
Who is behind this
I'm Alexandr — I like to explore unusual places and go on adventures. This is where the stills live.
I build mobile apps — that's the day job. Away from it, I like adventures and exploring: getting out to the places most people drive past. This journal is where that lands — the architecture and abandonment I find, wherever in the world it's still standing. If you'd like an app built, get in touch.