Beautiful, haunting photographs of abandoned places around the world. The ultimate visual reference in urban exploration. Once thriving buildings now ravaged by nature and time are the subject of this fascinating book.

The vestiges of Abkhazia, a country that does not exist, an abandoned power plant turned into a set for Hollywood movies, the Buffer Zone in Cyprus, the ghost city of the Chernobyl disaster, an Art Nouveau theatre in Brussels, a unique 18th-century Italian fortification, the city of Tskaltubo with its waters of immortality, one of the oldest baths in Romania...

Roman Robroek is an urban-obsessed and award-winning photographer, born and raised in the enchanting south of the Netherlands. He takes unique photos of forgotten and abandoned places all over the world. What is the story behind those buildings? Who used to live there? What purpose did these objects serve, and why were they abandoned? This curiosity has created a close bond between him and Urban Photography, and Oblivion is the result of the last 10 years, which he spent exploring incredible ghostly locations, trying to answer these endless questions.

本书汇集了世界各地美丽迷人的废墟照片，是探索城市的重要视觉参考——曾经辉煌的历史建筑如今饱受自然和时间的蹂躏。

一个不存在的国家阿布哈兹的遗迹、一个变成好莱坞电影布景的废弃发电厂、塞浦路斯的缓冲区、切尔诺贝利鬼城、布鲁塞尔的新艺术派剧院、一个独特的18世纪意大利防御工事、拥有不朽之水的茨卡尔图博城、罗马尼亚最古老的浴场之一……

罗曼·罗布罗克（Roman Robroek）是一位痴迷于拍摄城市的获奖摄影师，在荷兰迷人的南部地区出生长大。他为世界各地被遗忘和废弃的地方拍摄了独特的照片。试图理解这些建筑背后有什么故事？曾经住着谁？这些物品有什么用途，为什么会被遗弃？这种好奇心在他和城市摄影之间建立了密切的联系，本书是过去10年的成果，罗曼·罗布罗克花了10年时间探索令人难以置信的废墟，试图回答这些无尽的问题。