The few items left behind in a building empty even of walls become all the more visible and powerful if they have colour.
Project Amagerbrogade 132, 8-2013
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Project Amagerbrogade 132, 7-2013
The guy I talked to about the building yesterday said his children had called it the haunted house. Believe me, it was not haunted. There was presense but not of people without bodies. There was peace and serenity if you knew to look beyond the apparent. I hope I captured this mood in my photos.
Project Amagerbrogade 132, 4-2013
It’s hard for me to describe just what I felt spending time in the derelict building, days before the walls came down. It was almost like entering another world – not quite permissable but also not trespassing.
Project Amagerbrogade 132, 2-2013
The two story building on Amagerbrogade 132 has intrigued me for years. More than eight years ago I tried to contact the owner at the time to see if I could buy it for the café I wanted to establish. No luck – though probably ‘luck’ is not the right word considering the state it was in already then.
I resently read in the local newspaper that an entrepeneur had managed to both buy the building and convince a chain of steak houses to establish themselves in Copenhagen at this particular spot. Driving by the small-town-USA-looking building one day, as I often do, I suddenly thought, “! wish I could photograph the renovation!” I got in touch with Jan Elving of Øens Murerfirma and got the go ahead. As far as I know, no one else is recording the transformation of this local ‘landmark’.
The images I’m about to share are all from my first visits inside. Already now there is only a shell left and what you see over the next couple of weeks is gone.
Karins Fotos 