Power Station Beneath Niagra Falls
We live in an era of shrinking frontiers. Or do we? There is a hidden side to the spreading artificial landscape that makes up our cities and suburbs. Michael Cook and a few friends have a passion for exploring and documenting the secret passages and underground liars of forgotten civic works.
The Vanishing Point is remarkable, not simply for Cook’s ballsy spelunking of rotting man-made subterranean caverns but because of his exquisite documentation of his travels. This is guerilla history, folks, with a keen eye and ear for what Cook calls “human geography.”
What most amazes me is Cook’s jaw-dropping industrial photography. From the looks of it Cook and his mates must travel with a half dozen strobe lights, slave units and tripods and spend considerable time setting up these shots. All while midnight trespassing in dripping rat-filled chasms. It just doesn’t get any better than this.
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Hey Phil, as a kid did you ever explore that drainage tunnel underneath the Glassell street bridge at Hart Park? It’s closed off now, of course, but back in the day we followed it as far as our little nerves would allow. Good scary fun.