Category Archives: Italy

Pompeii

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I suppose Pompeii doesn’t exactly count as bando, but there’s nothing quite like the death of an entire city to leave it desolate. The fact that the paintings in the brothel survived is quite amusing. It’s a very sobering experience to stand in the ruins here, and I can’t wait to get a chance to …

Manicomio di Voghera

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Thus far my favorite location and biggest undertaking, Manicomio di Voghera stands forgotten and rotting in a tiny rural Italian town. I scrambled through a gap in a chainlink fence, through a field of pokey plants, through another small hole in a brick wall, more bushes, and finally through a knocked out glass pane in …

Train Station and Factory Ruins

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While in a tiny town in rural Italy for a shoot, my photographer and I went on a little adventure to some nearby ruins. The factory was once a canning factory, but is now an empty husk. The train station was abandoned for many years, just up the trail from the factory. Though both are …