Overgrown Hainan Village, Thomson Nature Park, Singapore
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Overgrown Hainan Village, Thomson Nature Park, Singapore

Drawn to forgotten places, I discovered Singapore’s abandoned Hainan Village in Thomson Nature Park, a kampung founded by Hainanese immigrants in the 1930s. Once home to nearly 100 residents before being cleared in the 1980s, the site is now slowly being reclaimed by forest, its history hidden beneath the trees.

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Threshold
Travel, Urbex LUKE DAVID Travel, Urbex LUKE DAVID

Threshold

Threshold is a five-year series capturing abandoned Victorian properties encountered on countless road trips, places still haunted by the lives they once held. Created against the backdrop of COVID lockdowns, the work reflects a state poised between decay and renewal, wondering what awaits us on the other side of confinement.

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Abandoned Calder Park Thunderdome
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Abandoned Calder Park Thunderdome

I’m drawn to abandoned places, where the echoes of past lives linger in crumbling spaces like the long-forgotten Thunderdome stands at Calder Park. Visiting on New Year’s Day 2021, I found the area open and unmanaged, with fences falling away to the elements, and explored only where access was clearly already open. My approach to abandoned photography is simple: never break in, never damage or deface, and always leave a place exactly as I found it.

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