If you have ever wondered whether mother nature is more powerful than humanity, Peter Lippmann's photographic odyssey called Paradise Parking makes it very clear who comes out on top in the end. The NYC-born photographer based in France traveled through the countryside in search of abandoned vintage automobiles that have been swallowed up by trees and vines and then photographed them, producing a captivating collection of vivid visuals that are bound to make green hearts sing. Click through the pics below for a sample of Lippmann's photography and to find out which gallery will be the first to represent this talented artist's latest body of work.
Are these cars all on private property? I can’t believe forest management would leave such ‘trash’ laying around… (perhaps in France they do…)
Trees will grow around anything. On the other side of my town (received city rights in 1391) there are some really old mansions with very old metal fences. Some trees were planted to close to the fence (or the fence placed so close to the tree) that the fence is now in the middle of the tree…
Looks very cool.
I’m french, and I’ve never seen anything like this in a public forest! It is certainly inside some private properties
Strangely beautiful and perhaps prophetic, seeing technology integrated into nature.