Romain Veillon, Sylvain Tesson - Green Urbex - Le monde sans nous - 2021

This work by photographer Romain Veillon offers a visual and poetic journey through places abandoned by humanity — castles, factories, schools, cities, and industrial or civil sites left to decay.

With Sylvain Tesson's poetic preface, this beautiful book is a meditation on impermanence.

The author explores what becomes of these places, their deterioration, time, and especially nature's return — vegetation, ruins, silence, and the way nature reclaims space.

This approach aligns with the philosophy of green urbex — not just exploring ruins, but ecological reflection: what would the world become if humans disappeared? How does nature reappropriate space? What traces would remain?

The book offers a striking vision of the fragility of human civilizations and the strength of nature.

The discussion is structured around three main stages.

At the beginning, the abandonment — the slow disappearance of man, of places emptied of their occupants.
Decay takes hold — ruins, deterioration, the wear of time, between walls that crack, forgotten objects, materials falling into disrepair.
Nature takes over — vegetation that invades, submerged ruins, forgotten buildings transformed into wild landscapes, physical memory of absence.

Number of pages: 247
Dimensions of the work: 24.4 x 29.8 x 2.9 cm
- Binding: Hardcover, bound without dust jacket.

Condition: Excellent, interior free of annotations and dog-eared pages, cover with some minor marks, slightly rubbed at its corners.
See the presentation photos included in the description.
Very beautiful specimen.

It will be delivered in a carefully packaged, robust, and tracked package.