Every abandoned building has a story about how it got that way, whether it’s an urban legend or the truth.
Rotting, crumbling, or completely invaded by nature, abandoned buildings can be as creepy as they are fascinating.
From ancient ruins uncovered underneath ash to mental hospitals that have been left to rot.
In this project I have traveled to central Iran and had the great opportunity to photograph some of these amazing places that the history of them dates back to thousands of years ago.
We just found this place in our way to the South in the middle of nowhere. No name, no address, no information!!!
I have mostly focused on the concept of transformation as subject matters to show how the man-made structures transforming and one day soon nothing will be left.
Ourselves and our world is constantly transforming and no one can stop that, looking at some of these houses or entire villages and thinking how many stories they have got to tell us, if they just could talk!
What they have gone through! How many life has started in them and how many ended!
Sitting in a remote valley about 70km (43 miles) north of Yazd in Central Iran, is the deserted and crumbling mud-brick village of “Kharanaq”. The site has been occupied for approximately 4,000 years, while the dilapidated adobe buildings that draw foreigners from around the world date back around 1,000 years. The abandoned town is a photographer’s dream with a labyrinth of streets, tunnels, passageways, and rooms, as well as more impressive buildings such as a tiny mosque, a shaking minaret, and an old caravanserai that welcomed merchants and pilgrims centuries ago.
Kharanaq, which means ‘place of birth of the sun’, is divided into two parts – the Old Town, which is almost completely deserted, and the New Town, where some 130 families continue to live.
The Old Town was constructed with sun-baked mud bricks, forming one of the largest collections of adobe buildings in Iran. It was once a prosperous farming village, but when water supplies dried up the inhabitants left, leaving the town to turn to ruins.
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