Through My Cat Eyes

I love exploring abandoned buildings, especially old derelict houses.  Stepping into them is like walking through a time portal. The furniture, books and personal belongings that lie covered in dust, half eaten by insects, and strewn across the floor as if a tornado ripped through the house fuels the imagination of what it felt like living in that house during its most prosperous era.  Those very same items also left an unanswered question to explorers, and perhaps the same question asked by the house, towards its forgotten owners - why did they abandoned the place? Properties are always considered as investments and a property owner would not abandon such huge investments without making a profit out of it first. There a a many reasons why buildings are abandoned, but to make a relevant connection to the local environment, it could be narrowed down to a few reasons such as, eviction due to bankruptcy, death of the remaining occupant, and migration of the occupants t...

I believe, one of the first reasons why I took up photography was because of these gates.  I'm a huge fan of urban exploration and I've always wanted to explore the forgotten, trace the memories of the people who inhabited that place, and perhaps, find a hidden sanctuary that I can make my own. I was taken in by the beautiful and haunting photographs of abandoned places posted online and realized that there are many interesting buildings and places around the city that has been abandoned and not fully explored and photographed. With the rapid speed of development of the city and the disregard to historical architecture, these buildings will be forgotten forever. To me, it feels as if that every time a historical building is destroyed, the unique identity of the city is destroyed and it ignorantly transform into another typical modern city.  The identity of the city is the reflection of the history and future of the people. If we fail to understand that the city ...