R. F. Paulus lives in San Francisco, California, after having grown up in Paris, France. His interest in photography and abandoned places started after exploring the centuries-old Paris Catacombs six years ago. Since then, he has traveled across many cities in North America, Europe, and Japan, as well as remote deserts in California, Nevada, and North Africa, in search of forgotten places and unique viewpoints to photograph. Besides photography, he has worked as an artificial intelligence researcher and software engineer in Silicon Valley for the past few years.