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Recently I posted my full exploration of the Qiaoyou Building (喬友大廈), a towering ruin in the heart of Changhua City. It was a big building and I ended up capturing many more photographs than I ended up sharing there. Here, in this post, I’d like to share a few more photos I captured in black and white. I have also included a couple of images demonstrating how I digitally restore photographic negatives I find in the ruins.

The rickety ladder leading up to the very top of the Qiaoyou Building.
The rickety ladder leading up to the very top of the Qiaoyou Building.
The entrance to the KTV on the very top floor of the Qiaoyou Building.
The entrance to the KTV on the very top floor of the Qiaoyou Building.
Torn carpets and rusted valves.
Torn carpets and rusted valves.
A game of broken telephone.
A game of broken telephone.
A ghost in the mirror.
A ghost in the mirror.
Found negatives in the Qiaoyou Building.
Found negatives in the Qiaoyou Building.
Digitally exposing some of the found negatives.
Digitally exposing some of the found negatives.
Broken windows on film. Very meta.
Broken windows on film. Very meta.
Checkered walls on the upper levels of the Qiaoyou Building.
Checkered walls on the upper levels of the Qiaoyou Building.
The mezzanine.
The mezzanine.
A tangle of cables down in the mezzanine level.
A tangle of cables down in the mezzanine level.
A decade of dust.
A decade of dust.
Tiny bones in the stairwell.
Tiny bones in the stairwell.
On the south side.
On the south side.
KTV tapes on the third floor.
KTV tapes on the third floor.
Abandoned video cassettes.
Abandoned video cassettes.
KTV machine.
KTV machine.

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Alexander Synaptic
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.