Urbex

Ulingsheide Abbey

In 1884, the first Trappists from Westmalle settled at Ulingsheide in Tegelen. They started with a farm in what was…

Cold War Urbex

Relations between the former Allies deteriorated quickly after the Second World War. The Cold War that followed revolved to a…

Schloss Tannenfeld

I made this reportage in 2013. To protect the location, I left the photographs unpublished for a long time afterwards.The…

Dirty bombs…

Although photographing this location took quite some doing, I am also aware that if four people who only take pictures…

Grand Hôtel Regnier

Grand Hôtel Regnier was a hotel dating from the early twentieth century. The name belonged to a time when a…

Usine Verre Vert

Usine Verre Vert owed its name to the greenish glass remnants beside the furnace. Much of the former glass factory…

Manoir DP

Like so many other houses in Belgium, Manoir DP had been empty for years. Abandoned homes are not my favourite…

The trip to Horror Labs

It has been a few years since “Horror Labs” was on our list of places to visit. After much discussion,…

The story behind HFB…

Background: When the steel industry in Europe really began to take shape in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries,…

Star Trek Church

This Catholic church acquired the nickname Star Trek Church because of its striking shape. It was a popular photographic location,…

Usine De Naeyer

Louis De Naeyer started a paper mill in 1860. The company grew into a large industrial complex that provided a…

Jesuit monastery in Valkenburg

The former Jesuit monastery in Valkenburg was not a building you could simply walk into. Several photographers tried to arrange…