Welcome to Undercity.org.

I love cities, and I particularly like seeing them from unique viewpoints and hard-to-get-to places. From the tops of bridges to sewer tunnels, these unusual vantage points help me see the true extent of the structures and the real complexity of the systems that make up a city. To see how these systems function with each other is to truly appreciate the ingenuity of mankind.

I call what I do urban exploration, and what that means to me is peeling back the layers of cities to see what’s underneath. The interesting thing about layers of a city is that they reveal layers of history as well, and often peeling back-- or venturing into-- the physical layers of the city helps to uncover the historical layers. I find that especially true in the urban underground. Active cities constantly build over their past, and often the structures I see that have remained unchanged and untouched the longest are tunnels.

Click here to see photo galleries, histories, and occasional adventure stories catalogued by city. (note: very few galleries or stories are up yet; the working links are in gray text).

You can also buy archival quality fine-art prints of some photos at http://www.undercity.etsy.com.

If you have visited my site recently, then you know that I have not updated for years. Thank you for your patience! Though it's six months ovderdue, I now finally have the new site at least partially up. When it's fully up I will have photo galleries and occasional histories or stories of places ranging from the sewers of ancient Rome to the steel-arch bridges of New York City.

While this site is under construction you can also visit my old site at http://www.undercity.org/photos/photos.htm.