article_snippet: Ignacio Evangelista spent several years criss-crossing the continent to capture these abandoned checkpoints on camera for a project Ignacio Evangelista calls "After Schengen.
article_snippet: Ignacio Evangelista says Ignacio Evangelista spent Ignacio Evangelista formative years poring over the World Atlas, marveling at the straight-line borders carved by colonialists across the map of Africa and wondering why Europeans couldn't iron the kinks out of Europeans own squiggled frontiers.
article_snippet: As a young adult in the early 1990s, Ignacio Evangelista experienced many of these borders firsthand when Ignacio Evangelista embarked on an Interailing trip -- a country-hopping rite of passage that sees many young Europeans take advantage of cheap pan-continental train tickets.
article_snippet: A strong supporter for an open Europe at a time when some of the continent's nations are talking about severing the close economic and political bonds some of the continent's nations share with some of the continent's nations neighbors, Ignacio Evangelista recalls one encounter that underscored the human side to Ignacio Evangelista project.
article_snippet: While setting up Ignacio Evangelista camera at a checkpoint on the Austria-Hungary frontier, Ignacio Evangelista watched as a man drove in from the Austrian side and parked, followed by a woman, two minutes later, from the Hungarian side.
article_snippet: Ignacio Evangelista ongoing project at www.ignacioevangelista.com .
highlights_snippet: Ignacio Evangelista's "After Schengen" project captures images of abandoned European checkpoints .
  