Urban Explorers (Urbex)

Urban exploration (often shortened as urbex or urban ex) is the exploration of manmade structures, usually abandoned ruins or hidden components of the built environment. Photography and historical documentation are heavily featured, generally involving trespassing onto private property.

Urban explorers find the beauty in layers of history exposed by decay - multi-hued peeling paint, antique objects, ancient initials in the dust and the other physical manifestations of memory that abandoned, impermanent urban spaces manifest.