linktr.ee/nikifeijen ✔️ Official IRIX ambassador ✔️ Sponsored by Think Tank Photo ✔️ Professional Tresspasser Dutch self-thought photographer immortilizing an astonishingly intact glimpse into the past. Passionate about documenting and capturing historic architecture and abandoned buildings. Each photo fuses together the conflicting notions of beauty and decay and corresponds with the desire to capture and silently communicate with the audience about the subject’s very essence. In 2010 I visited the quintessential location of desertion: the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. After a catastrophic nuclear accident occurred in 1986 the entire city of Pripyat, all 50,000 inhabitants, were evacuated within 48 hours. Most of the belongings of the evacuated inhabitants were left behind and never returned to again. The incredible deafening silence of this location, in its absence of the living, permeates the senses and mind of visitors who venture to there to this day. To me it was an incredible life changing experience. Always travelling around the globe looking for more hidden gems tucked away behind ‘Do Not Enter’ signs. Curious about what lies on the other side, I go in search of the hidden world that is often in plain sight. I intend to preserve the what is left of the past by encapsulating these forgotten masterpieces’ ethos in a photo before they crumble and collapse. The impressions left from these places are represented in visual form for the public in three separate books. All works, ‘Disciple of Decay’ (April 2013) ‘Frozen’ (September 2014) and ‘Tempus Fugit’ (December 2017), have been independently published. The first sold out in six months. As of 2014 my work is part of the Sir Elton John Photography Collection where my name is among legendary photographers as ; Edward Weston, David LaChapelle, Diane Arbus and Henri Cartier-Bresson. And that makes me incredibly proud and humble.