My second abandoned architecture series, shot in locations much further spread across Europe, from Poland and France to Italy and of course the UK. Looking more at palaces and grand scale buildings, this series was a yearlong creation.
The natural progression of my work where I started to inject colour and tones back into images as I progressed and grew with experience of shooting this genre.
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This huge palace in central Poland is undergoing a very slow renovation process. It is now occasionally used to undertake wedding or bridal shoots.
This image took me a little while to pull together, it was shot in an abandoned and decaying seminary. Since this image was taken the roof has collapsed.
Dust falls behind a disused piano in a huge Polish Palace that is currently under a protection order.
Award: Crestfallen was awarded in the Chromatic Awards 2017 with a 1ST PRIZE IN ARCHITECTURE, professional category.
The main feature of this medium sized palace was this rotunda and the pastel wall colourings.
I love the way light pours in from above and in turn allows for the shodow to fall off around the banister.
The light was fading fast whilst inside this huge but empty palace filled with brown and green tones throughout. Many of the rooms had stunning features.
A small boat sits inside this derelict hotel in Northern Italy. Placing a foreground into my images was something that I placed at the forefront of my mind here.
An abandoned vespa moped lies in this out-house in Italy - providing this piece an interesting point of view.
A back room inside a huge abandoned castle in central Italy that I photographed in the May of 2015.
The large central hall of a derelict villa in Tuscany, Italy. A difficult one to shoot during the day, so to protect the mint tones I created this during blue hour.
This old smoking carriage sits disused on the rear of a very rusty train in Belgium. We went on here actually to photograph models.
A beautiful and ornate greenhouse that sits abandoned next to a large derelict villa in Northern Italy.
Ivy bursts into an ornate and derelict green/outhouse in the South of France. Photographed in March 2016.
An amazing art-deco control room - this gem was being looked after and has made many appearances on the cinema screens over the last decade.
A villa in Belgium with a lovely and very welcoming hallway - photographed on a very wet day in 2015. Belgium was once the hotbed of derelict buildings.
Abandoned spiral stairs of a seminary, shot at night and lit by torch light.
A clean-ish, white set of spiral stairs that I shot inside a mansion in France.
A very derelict chateau in France. This building has an amazing dome at the top of these stairs.
A newer edit from a derelict asylum in Italy's East, this time with the impractical chair inside the courtyard.
My second abandoned architecture series, shot in locations much further spread across Europe, from Poland and France to Italy and of course the UK.
In this series entitled "domum dei", I take a look at just a small handful of the forgotten and derelict churches, chapels and religious buildings.
In this 2017 series I looked at ornate abandoned architecture across Europe specifically palaces, ballrooms or halls in the UK, Portugal and Romania.
Lebanon and Beirut’s architecture in particular, was heavily influenced by Paris and there are still amazing examples of this.
“Uninhabited” is an ongoing project which will take around four years to complete, due to the slowing down of the world with the global pandemic.
Concealed represents my movements throughout 2018 through to 2021, looking behind closed doors in search of hidden architecture. Undertaking trips further afield outside the constraints of Europe.