Timm Suess was born and grew up in Basel, Switzerland, and shot his first photo at the age of five (on his first kindergarten day). An industrial psychologist by trade, he has been an avid photographer since the mid 1990s. After 2002, he started to specialize in urban decay photography. His photo tours have taken him abandoned factories, clinics, hotels and ghost towns in Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the continental US, Hawaii and the Ukraine. His work has been shown in exhibitions, public slide shows, on CD covers as well as stock photography. He also records video and soundscapes on his tours. Most of Timm Suess's work revolves around and the slow battle between human structures and nature's decay processes. He is fascinated by the effects of time, which is also reflected in his time-lapse movies. His pictures show internal spaces, external structures, crumbling walls, industrial details and abstract compositions. They are memento mori of forgotten places, demonstrating that the abs
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