Henk van Rensbergen is a Boeing 787 pilot who flies around the globe. While his crew rests at the swimming pool, he goes out to explore the abandoned places of our world.
From a floating warship cemetery in France, a forgotten love hotel in Japan to a flooded theme park in New Orleans, Henk van Rensbergen searches for the beauty of their desolation and pinpoints the richness of their decay.
Van Rensbergen is a pioneering Urban Explorer. His Abandoned Places photo books (1, 2, 3 and The Photographer's Selection) have been highly successful. This pocket size book shows his most iconic photos of the past 25 years, including some unpublished material and anecdotes.
What if animals were the only survivors? This new photographic series by Henk van Rensbergen is uncanny and spellbinding as it pictures a post-apocalyptic world. The captivating beauty of the desolation conveyed by his Abandoned Places books persists in these images, but gains an added dimension with the depiction of animals in search of their place in a world once dominated by human beings. Desmond Morris, the world famous zoologist and artist wrote an introduction and the author Peter Verhelst composed a memorable epilogue.
