I guess I was always curious, but it’s only as I got a little older that I started to take a look behind closed doors at the places people and time forgot. Back then it was a bit more under-the-radar, a counterculture movement that appealed to my own sensibilities and fascination with the past. More recently my interest in documenting the built environment as it teeters on the edge, forgotten by many and unloved by most, has expanded into a wider portfolio that doesn’t always involve jumping fences or creeping down corridors. 🙂 My camera bears witness to the widespread loss of local landmarks, way markers, and a rich and distinctive past that’s plain to all to see, only to be replaced by a homogenised sprawling low-rise mess that surely nobody can argue is distinctive…
This is just a flavour of over a hundred abandoned places I’ve crept about in and documented, as well as other notable buildings at risk and those that have been lost forever. I could have included many more but tried to keep it photography focused.