Name: How Instagram Fuels the Urban Explorer Movement
Uploaded: 2016-08-15T03:22:36.000Z
Duration: 5 min 7 s
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Gerund

I started shooting at the age of 16, so about two years now.

Past simple

I started urban exploring about last summer

that shoot with the [INAUDIBLE] and stuff

and kind of got into the whole urban exploring scene.

I followed them on Instagram because I liked their photos.

And I just hit them up and asked them if they want a shoot.

That's how you meet new people, and luckily the people I've met

with all the other people that had the same kind of interests

And that wanted to like urban explore New York City,

and then I would also bring my camera along.

Back then when I first started doing this,

I didn't really know much about photography.

from people I chill with and hang out with that do photos.

I just bring my camera and shoot on auto,

and eventually my friends and people I've met

gained some pointers and tips and tricks,

and I started shooting a manual and learned

how to really use my camera to its full potential.

And then one day after work, you had brought your camera, right?

He was like, oh, I know this rooftop we can go on.

I'm like all right, let's go, and we went.

The night after that, I was out and he called me.

And he's like oh, I just climbed the Williamsburg Bridge.

We were like-- they already have our names.

They dragged us through Times Square in cuffs.

I mean, I think at first they thought we were jumpers.

So when they-- I remember doing a couple of feet shots,

and then looking down to the lower part of the roof

It's probably, I guess, the most exciting thing I've ever done.

Especially being from Brooklyn, New York, not many people

So, you know what I do is I take it into my own hands

and I tend to go places I guess where I'm not supposed to be.

I actually got into photography a long time ago,

due to me being a skateboard filmer at first.

I guess sometimes we abide by the same rules.

Skateboarding and urban exploring photography--

can't skate it because there's usually a security guard there.

When you're skating, you want to be recorded.

You want to be filmed just like all the pro skaters.

So when you get into that idea of wanting to be filmed,

you tend to pick up the camera and start shooting photos.

And mostly everybody that I shoot photos with skates.

For a while, me and my friend [? Naisha ?]

had been scoping out a 432 Park [INAUDIBLE].

that we can maybe sneak into the building and get to the top.

Eventually walked up all the 90 flights of stairs

Nothing about the building really specifically

You never know which doors going to be open.

You can just check a door and a door just might open.

one of the few people that have been here

You get not only just wanting to check out new stuff.

It's curiosity, but also there's like an adrenaline rush

The thrill of going places where I'm not supposed to go

The reason why I explore is because each place

is relatively easy to get to, and it just

get to see these places just because they're

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