An Ephemeral Tour of Europe’s Abandoned Industrial Ruins

An Ephemeral Tour of Europe's Abandoned Industrial Ruins

We Americans tend to conceptualize "old" in very recent terms—which explains our collective fascination with ruin porn. If the decay of European cities receives less attention, it’s just because it’s much more ubiquitous. French photographer and self-described "urban explorer" Thomas Jorion has made a career out of seeking out and photographing these lesser known spaces—from an ice-crusted Bulgarian monument to a rotting gas storage silo, seen above.

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