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Self-taught Dutch photographer Daan Oude Elferink (1978) travels the world to explore and capture the beauty of forbidden, decayed and abandoned places. Daan has always been drawn to adventure and even as a child you could find him often secretly playing in an abandoned factory, not knowing that years later he would be taking pictures of them.
Daan has released four books: Urban Exploration & Photography, Gift of Time, Touched by Time and Travel in Time. Daan has won multiple awards for the imaging in his books. Including the award for best self-published book at the FEP Photo Book Awards in 2024, and the European Book Price of 2017, awarded by the Federation of European Photographers in Sicily.
Daan's limited edition artworks have been exhibited in art galleries in more than 20 cities all over the world, including;
How did these people live? Why is the place abandoned? What happened?
With time, nature starts to take over. As the years pass, buildings and the secrets they keep crumble and decay. On first glance you may see a pile of moldy debris, but look at it with different eyes and you’ll find a breathtaking beauty.
I am pleased to take you to the world behind the ‘no entry’ signs and the locked doors. It offers a glimpse of the beautiful, forbidden world of decay as I see it.
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Through unmanned overgrown terrain, closed windows and doors while trying to go undetected and without damaging anything. Inside there is a calm stillness which prevails. A slither of light streams through the grimy windows and reveals decay and desolation. So special, so beautiful!
I am pleased to take you to the world behind the ‘no entry’ signs and the locked doors. It offers a glimpse of the beautiful, forbidden world of decay as I see it.
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