Sean Galbraith

As an urban planner by trade, with a background in urban and graphic design, I have a great love of cities and urban development. I spend a lot of time exploring cities and observing city life and through my photographs I try to document urban life as it presents itself to me and present honest and accurate representations of what cities mean and what makes them beautiful. A subset of my overall urban photography is my interest in urban decay and demolition by neglect. All buildings have a story; a history; a life; and a death. Industrial factories rust. Office buildings slowly crumble. Residential buildings are reclaimed by the elements. It is a rarity that these building evolutions are witnessed by those outside their walls. I seek to go where many have gone in the past, but few go today. To explore, embrace, and bring sight to these spaces and environments from which others avert their gaze. To document that which once was kinetic, but now lies dormant and decaying; even with man-made objects, death is a part of life and has its own beauty. I strive to document our modern ruins to preserve their stories and images; and in the process seek to gain insight into our collective interaction with the built form and the environment.