Drains of Canada

I love obscure things like this. Michael Cook is a writer, photographer and 'urban explorer'. Based in Toronto, he journeys into the subterranean civic infrastructure of Canada and posts maps and photographic work on his website 'The Vanishing Point'.

Says Michael:

"Despite the visions of futurists, the work of our planners and cement-layers thankfully remains a fractured and discontinuous whole, an urban field riven with internal margins, pockmarked by decay, underlaid with secret waterways. Stepping outside our prearranged traffic patterns and established destinations...we find a thousand vanishing points, each unique, each alive, each pregnant with riches and wonders and time."

For a UK perspective on subterranean urban exploration check out 'Sub-Urban':"a collection of stories, facts, photographs and video from two friends who choose to venture where our curiosity so leads us".

Who'd have thought sewers and drains could be so beautiful?
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Comments

[Doug]

Great stuff!

[Ace]

Thank you for sharing this wonderful photographs. They are really awesome!

[hyper]

They are really stunning. Pretty impressive!