Abandoned house on the Sicilian coast in Taormina by Silva Wischeropp

This urban city shot was taken in summer on
12 July 2015 in the early afternoon hours during my photo trip to the island of Sicily in southern Italy. The image was taken with the Nikon D90.
This photographic image shows the morbid charm of an abandoned house with typical Sicilian balcony railings, rotten, peeling paint, faded wooden doors on the island of Sicily on the east coast.
This mysterious house façade is not far from the tourist town of Taormina. The picture was taken during my photo trip on the east coast of Sicily.
The typical iron balcony shapes are a classic feature of the Sicily region. The crumbling house façade and the peeling paint on the walls give the motif an irresistible charm. A colourful, enchanting wooden door in dark brown tones lends the picture expression a very special vintage character. These charming, urban façades tell a piece of Sicilian history and culture. Behind every wooden window and every doorway lies the secret of this Mediterranean island in the south of Italy.
Sicily enchants visitors with its special architectural features and different building styles, which give the island a unique fascination.
The small town of Taormina, high up on the mountain, which Goethe discovered on his Italian travels at the end of the 18th century, attracted numerous artists and celebrities at the end of the 19th century, including Oscar Wild, Thomas Mann and Richard Strauss. Even Empress Sissi of Austria stopped by and the Taormina-Giardini railway station was built in her honour.
The foundations were thus laid for Taormina to become a fashionable coastal resort, and more celebrities came in the following decades, including Greta Garbo, Cary Grant, Elizabeth Taylor and many more.

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Silva Wischeropp was born in the Hanseatic city of Wismar in the former GDR. Today she lives and works in Berlin. As an experienced and passionate travel photographer whose interests span a broad range, she focuses on portraiture, street life, reportage, documentary, travel, tourism, landscape and nature. In addition, she is known for her recordings in the fields of architecture and fashion. Since 2016, her new repertoire includes surreal digital photo collages. For 20 years she has been known in Germany and abroad as a creative photo artist. Her works have been widely published and exhibited. "The photographic image process represents my personal work and creation area. This means dealing with image worlds, politics, human needs and sensitivities. The camera expands my scope to meet that other reality. Photography makes me happy, creates joy, closes boundaries, opens new doors, widens horizons. The camera teaches me to see, to sharpen the view, to capture moments, to perceive fleeting moments that are not visible to others. I am a creative person, a picture-maker, who draws on herself, does not copy a lot and develops her own imagery. So I move between the poles, reach different fixed points, look behind the scenes. Out of the thousandfold existing I manage to bring out something unique, unique moments of the picture."

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