Abandoned East Tennessee: Ruins of Rocky Top

Explores the haunting beauty of forgotten structures in the Smoky Mountain communities.

Abandoned structures are places that open the imagination and invite interpretation. Distressed wood and weathered remnants of human life are crossed by time and animal tracks, inviting one to picture what once was. Abandoned homes and buildings offer a unique, distressed beauty. While often overlooked by passers—by, their skeletal remains act as the perfect subject for the lens of a camera, quietly waiti...