Bob Thissen – 1985 – The Netherlands | Urban explorer – Stop Motion – Photographer – Animator
In January 2013 Bob graduated from MAD Faculty Genk (Belgium) with a high distinction in a Master course of Animation with his Stop-Motion short movie; “Nothing Beside Remains”
With his former teacher Toon Loenders he developed an eight episode TV series in 2016 where he brings abandoned buildings back alive with Stop-Motion techniques.
After the TV series he started to document the most amazing abandoned places in the world fulltime and his work is published in online media and television, (like National geographic, Discovery Channel, Apple and CNN) magazines, books and on his YouTube channel ‘Exploring the Unbeaten Path’, which has over 400.000 subscribers.
He also gives lectures & workshops about ‘urban exploring’ and has exhibitions.