Artist: Walter Arnold | Location: Hendersonville, NC
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Artist: Walter Arnold | Location: Hendersonville, NC
Hendersonville, NC
I am a self-taught fine art photographer born in Tallahassee, Florida, in 1981. I grew up in an artistic family and spent most of my childhood in Elmira, New York. After living for years in Florida, I settled in Hendersonville, North Carolina, and now make the mountains my home.
After picking up my first digital SLR camera in 2006, I discovered that the beauty of western North Carolina’s waterfalls and mountain vistas helped train my eye and hone my photographic skills. In 2009, I stumbled upon an abandoned airplane graveyard in St. Augustine, Florida. Shooting the derelict planes, I discovered a passion for abandonment photography. Since then, I have focused on developing a personal style of photography that I call “The Art of Abandonment.”
I travel the country seeking to photograph and document our nation’s modern ruins. By photographing these abandoned and endangered places, I help to preserve the history and tell the stories of these locations before they are gone.