Henk van rensbergen biography of michael

The Abandoned Places photo book series documents the places of work, entertainment, habitation and welfare humans leave behind.

To mark its third volume, the series’ author, Belgian photographer Henk van Rensbergen tells Umbrella what he’s seen on his latest travels, why he does what he does and what his work tell us about our species’ place on the planet.

Hi Henk.

Henk van rensbergen biography of michael jackson

Your latest book, Abandoned Places 3 is out. Where did you go this time? Any highlights?

The book is even more international, covering Poland, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Iceland, the USA, Caribbean and Japan. Obviously, Japan is a highlight: because it hasn’t been documented this way before by westerners.

Biography of michael jackson

It’s a closed society, very hard to communicate with and understand. Also, the places I visited were very different: there it’s the small things that matter, it’s all in the details and the culture of these people. There’s very little