Architectural Afterlife is a blog showcasing urbex photography across The United States and beyond. This blog was started in 2012 by Cleveland photographer Johnny Joo, to share the beauty of dusty old Midwest farmhouses and gritty industrial remains of the rust belt. Eventually, the blog content started covering much further than just the Midwest.

Johnny is an internationally accredited artist, most notably recognized for his photography of abandoned architecture and surrealistic digital compositions. Growing up sandwiched between the urban cityscape of Cleveland and boundless fields of rural Northeast Ohio provided Johnny with a front row ticket to a specialized cycle of abandonment, destruction, and nature’s reclamation of countless structures. His projects have ranged from malls to asylums to simple country homes, all left behind at various points in time. Always a lover of all art mediums, the seeds of a career were planted in Johnny’s mind at the age of 16 when a high school art project landed him in an abandoned farmhouse. Since that time, his art has expanded, including the publication of four books, music, spoken word poetry, art installations, and videography, with many plans for the future.

He also really likes cats.

Architectural Afterlife goes beyond just urbex photography, sometimes diving into the rich history behind places that have been repurposed, or restored, as well as aiming to help other urbex photographers with informative guides for urbex photography.