I took these photos at around 9pm after I finished basketball. Its inside fort regent (Jersey), and a week prior I noticed how much nostalgia I got from looking at the play park, as well as a bit of a scared feeling as It looks very run down and forgotten. I got the idea to take photos of it from past research in liminal spaces, as this area reminding me heavily of photos trying to capture this space. I only had 5 minutes to capture some images of here before fort regent was closed for the day, so I didn’t capture too many images.

liminal spaces are empty or abandoned places that appear eerie, forlorn, and often surreal. Liminal spaces are commonly places of transition, pertaining to the concept of liminality. This is basically the space between present and past, with old memories distorting this space. Photography of this rarely contains people, and focus on trying to capture an uncanny valley of architecture and physical places. Liminal space imagery often depicts this sense of “in-between”, capturing transitional places (such as stairwells, roads, corridors, or hotels) unsettlingly devoid of people.

The photos that I see online that give me the most ‘nostalgic’ and eerie feeling often look like there weren’t planned and had spontaneously taken the photos. So to make these images look unplanned I edited some of them with motion blur and added some grain, as well as making some images have a tilt.