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A portal into another life: Photographing America's abandoned homes

For a decade, New York-based photographer Bryan Sansivero documented forgotten homes across the United States, compiling the images into America the Abandoned: Captivating Portraits of Deserted Homes published in 2025.
Rejecting viral trends, Sansivero favors medium-format film and private houses as urbex became monetized, while he still posts to more than 100,000 followers on Instagram.
Photographs show preserved personal effects like musty libraries, toys, mugs, vintage dollhouses, mannequins and life-sized mannequin mermaids whose origins remain unknown.
He researches and anonymizes locations, and Sansivero’s work involves physical hazards including mold, decaying floors, and unstable structures.
Rather than concluding, the book America the Abandoned likely marks a pause rather than an end to Sansivero's decade-long project, as he highlights millions of abandoned private residences across the United States and explores European chateaus and castles.

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A portal into another life: Photographing America's abandoned homes

Grand pianos and half-full liquor bottles collect dust, while colorful children's playrooms scattered with toys are unsettlingly idle in the homes captured in these photos.

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