This Must Be The Place: A Series On Forgotten Places Around The World

There are 7.6 billion people living on our beautiful blue planet Earth. 

Today, from midnight until the moment I write this piq, there have been 231,458 births and just 95,970 deaths, which means that in 10 hours our population has grown by 135,488 people. Cities are, of course, the most densely populated areas on the planet. Tokyo alone holds over 38 million people—15,000 per square km. 

The UN has predicted that the world population will reach 9.6 billion by 2050. Are we overcrowded? Well, that’s, as everything else in the universe, relative. If every human stood shoulder to shoulder, we would all fit within the city limits of Los Angeles. However, if we would all want to live with the same population density of Alaska, we would need 108 Earths to fit us all. 

Some people like big cities and wake up every morning excited with the idea of spending their day surrounded by the faces of people they might never in their whole lives meet again. Some of us are loners, scratching on the edges of being hermits. This collection of photographs is dedicated to the second kind of people. Those who need their personal space bubble undisturbed, those who dream of the peaceful countryside, the sounds of nature, and enjoying a good wine next to a loved one while sitting in front of a warm chimney. This is a collection of lonely beautiful houses, lost somewhere far away from pollution, noise and trouble.