“L’Étranger” (The Stranger) is a photo book documenting the absurd passion people doing “Urban Exploration” share.

Urban Exploration or urbex stands for illegally entering and scaling human made constructions such as buildings, churches, towers, factories or tunnels.but who are we doing it with?

Urban Exploration is mostly done with other people. Via the internet, people from different countries and cultures, different ages and backgrounds meet to do it together.

Friendships often develop while doing urbex, but how do these multinational relationships come about and how do we go from complete strangers to close friends?

This book attempts to understand the process of friendship and captures the journey there in photographs. It delves into the meaning of community, passion and friendship.

Softcover

Swiss-bound

Open Spine

21x24cm

Paper Outside: Kamiko Fly Shira 300g/m² Uncoated

Paper Inside: Profibulk 13 150g/m²

136 Pages, 159 Images

First edition of 150

Published in 2024

Publisher: optikcontrol

https://optikcontrol.com/products/l-etranger-by-andreaswarhier

Photos & Design & Text: Andreas Winterberg

Illustrations: Sarah Franke