Undercity

I’ve always been drawn to the hidden parts of cities—the tunnels, the abandoned infrastructure, all the spaces that exist beneath the surface but are meant to stay unseen. Steve Duncan and Andrew Wonder turned that into a practice, infiltrating the underground levels of major cities around the world, documenting what’s been forgotten or left to decay. They made a film with Palladium Boots about exploring beneath Las Vegas and other places, and it reached people: the Times covered it, so did HuffPost and Wired.

There’s a direct appeal to unauthorized access, to seeing what’s off-limits. It’s partly the transgression, partly just the visual record of it—these weird abandoned spaces, the strange things that exist below the surface. The collaboration with a gear brand makes sense; you need good boots to crawl through tunnels and underground passages. But what makes this work is the documentation itself, making something visible that’s meant to stay hidden.