Chased by guards, threatened by dogs. Why I retired from urban exploration photography.
Matt Growcoot
“Please don’t let them find me,” I thought as I wondered what would happen if the snarling hounds became aware of my presence. While my visit to the Istvántelek train yard in Budapest, Hungary was a success, I would go on to suffer far more ignominious explores; including the weekend that caused me to give up abandoned photography for good. More on that later.
I got to see some really cool locations: Hospitals that had been closed by typhoid outbreaks, stately homes, masonic halls, art deco cinemas, old manufacturing plants. But I would occasionally find trouble, one time a friend and I set off a very loud alarm which scared the pants off me.
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