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Tag Archives: resort

The Pool at Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel © Forsaken Fotos

Kenopsia Posted on January 28, 2017 by Kenopsia-adminJanuary 28, 2017
The pool at Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel, Liberty, New York © Forsaken Fotos

The Pool at Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel © Forsaken Fotos. Permission for use kindly granted using this creative commons license. From Forsaken Fotos’ album Pool of Broken Dreams. This enormous resort which is located near the village of Liberty, New York closed in … Continue reading →

Posted in hotels, pools | Tagged color, colour, Flickr, Grossinger's Catskill Resort, hotel, New York, pool, resort, swimming pool, texture

Featured works

Stevenston indoors © Luke Duncan

Ababndoned interior at Stevenston © Luke Duncan
Ababndoned interior at Stevenston © Luke Duncan

Derelict Scotland © Luke Duncan

Model astronaut houses, Hat Yai Observatory, Thailand

Model astronaut houses, Hat Yai Observatory, Thailand
Model astronaut houses, Hat Yai Observatory, Thailand. strange rusting pods connected in a row of three with eye like fogged over windows.

Model houses for astronauts, Hat Yai Observatory, Thailand © Joe Murray

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Abandoned Train at Janakpur station, Nepal Railways
Abandoned Train at Janakpur station, Nepal Railways

Abandoned Train at Janakpur station, Nepal Railways © Bijay chaurasia

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Abandoned © Tom Hart Industrial factory building
Abandoned © Tom Hart Industrial factory building

Abandoned © Tom Hart

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black and white photo of abandoned toilet with paint peeling from the walls © clo photo
black and white photo of abandoned toilet with paint peeling from the walls © clo photo

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The Green Mile, green corridor with abandoned chairs © Puste Blümchen
The Green Mile, green corridor with abandoned chairs © Puste Blümchen

The Green Mile © Puste Blümchen

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empty swimming pool © Puste Blümchen
empty swimming pool © Puste Blümchen

where’s my water © Puste Blümchen

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abandoned room with bed and a green wall. © enki22
abandoned room with bed and a green wall. © enki22

abandoned room © enki22

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Ducor Pool. The swimming pool area of the former Ducor Palace Hotel in Monrovia, Liberia. Diving Board and decayon blue tiles © Mark Fischer
Ducor Pool. The swimming pool area of the former Ducor Palace Hotel in Monrovia, Liberia. Diving Board and decayon blue tiles © Mark Fischer

Ducor Pool © Mark Fischer

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Gas station in Ludlow California, great architecture, white. © el-toro
Gas station in Ludlow California, great architecture, white. © el-toro

ludlow, cal © el-toro

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The pool at Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel, Liberty, New York © Forsaken Fotos
The pool at Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel, Liberty, New York © Forsaken Fotos

The Pool at Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel © Forsaken Fotos

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room in an abandoned 1920's house, yellow walls and plantlife encroaching. © Cameron Evans
room in an abandoned 1920's house, yellow walls and plantlife encroaching. © Cameron Evans

Abandoned © Cameron Evans

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Abandoned © Basheer Tome
Abandoned © Basheer Tome

Abandoned © Basheer Tome (The Cape Romano Dome Homes)

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Cool light © Forsaken fotos an abandoned clinical room in a hospital with peeling paint and a bug surgeons lamp
Cool light © Forsaken fotos an abandoned clinical room in a hospital with peeling paint and a bug surgeons lamp

Cool light © Forsaken Fotos

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A vertical view of the tiki bar at the Penn Hills Resort © Jonathan Haeber
A vertical view of the tiki bar at the Penn Hills Resort © Jonathan Haeber

Abandoned Tiki Bar © Jonathan Haeber

Kenopsia

n. the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that’s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet—a school hallway in the evening, an unlit office on a weekend, vacant fairgrounds—an emotional afterimage that makes it seem not just empty but hyper-empty, with a total population in the negative, who are so conspicuously absent they glow like neon signs.

Etymology: From Greek, kenosis "emptiness" + opsia "seeing"

From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Thank you John Koenig.

Here is John Koenig's short film: Kenopsia: The Eeriness of Places Left Behind.

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