A French photographer is making it his mission to capture in pictures the potential result of a planet without people.
The notion of what the world would look like if humans were to vanish has been explored extensively by scientists, as well as many post-apocalyptic movies. However, French photographer Romain Veillon is making it his mission to capture in pictures the potential result of a planet without people. The 38-year-old has spent years photographing abandoned places around the world that have been overtaken by nature, with eerily beautiful results.
Veillon sometimes spends months researching lesser known sites and pinpointing their exact location, not to mention applying for authorization to photograph some of them. “I spend hours searching for historical clues that can help me locate the location I want to photograph,” he explains. Extraordinary sites “There’s a huge amount of time [spent] on Google Maps trying to see if some buildings might be buried under vegetation.
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