Controlled Desolation

An abandoned passenger terminal on the banks of the Dniester River in Bender, Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (aka: Transnistria). This Soviet era river and sea cruise station was once a hallmark feature of the city. It now stands idle and in disrepair, a statement of another time in an unrecognized breakaway state within Moldova. Places and things abandoned are a statement of society’s tendency to move forward, to gravitate towards the new and shiny while leaving much of the old behind. They exhibit an inherent beauty that is mostly overlooked, relics of the past that are left to the elements and time to be reclaimed by nature. The Windows Forgotten collection by Trent North is comprised...View all