Bart de Visser has made his artistic project the documentation of abandoned places and buildings in a process of decay. His interest in derelict places began as a child when instructions not to go to such places made them even more fascinating and alluring. He has since travelled all over the world photographing such buildings, trying to imagine what might have happened there in the past and attempting to capture something of the building's former life in its abandoned present state. De Visser likes to undertake his urban explorations without his phone, deliberately cutting off all contact with other people in order to increase his chances of being totally immersed in the forgotten worlds of the places he photographs.
This interest has led to a series of photographs of different types of buildings - derelict factories, former hospitals, churches and castles no longer being used, prisons, military camps and the abandoned 1936 Olympic village in Berlin.
Bart de Visser was born in Amsterdam, 1967 and will be exhibiting one of his photographs at the Sony World Photography Awards in Cannes, 20-25 April. To visit de Visser's Saatchi Online profile page click here. To find out more about the SWPA and Saatchi Online's exhibition click here.
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