San Francisco photographer Troy Paiva calls himself an urban explorer. He finds inspiration after dark in abandoned and off-limits factories, roadside wrecks, and decommissioned military bases. Paiva has turned his collection of fraying California landscapes into an offbeat book called Night Vision, published this summer by Chronicle Books. “What you see is what Troy saw when he was standing for hours in the middle of some godforsaken, desolate, and thoroughly beautiful wasteland in the middle of the night,” says Todd Lappin at Laughing Squid.
Check out a sampling of the pix in Night Vision here.
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