SPIEL MIR DAS LIED VOM TOD by Beat Hauser

Beat Hauser's work reclaims the beauty of forgotten industrial buildings. His photographs celebrate these spaces' dreamlike silence and emptiness while highlighting their forgotten architecture. This piece captures a dead piano in the hospital of Pripyat, Ukraine. Prypiat was founded in 1970 to house the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers, officially proclaimed a city in 1979, and was abandoned in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster.

Beat has been photographing industrial areas and abandoned spaces in Europe since 2003. He researches information about the locations he visits and gathers historical postcards, old letterheads, labels and advertisements to document the history of the places. Beat lives in Rheinfelden near Basel, Switzerland.

Beat Hauser
Spiel Mir Das Lied Vom Tod, 2009
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