Captivating new photobook reveals the mesmerizing 'beauty' of Britain's abandoned places
From a rusting Lancashire theme park to mysterious disused farmhouses: a captivating new photobook reveals the mesmerizing 'beauty' of Britain's abandoned placesIn a new book, abandoned British photographer Simon Sugden gives abandoned places 'a new life". [his] purpose is evocative,” says the foreword We learn that he sometimes worked in buildings so dusty and infested with vermin that he had to wear a respirator
AdvertisementThe fascinating qualities of decay and neglect are brought to light in these haunting photos.
They are from Yorkshire-based photographer Simon Sugden, who has searched abandoned buildings across the UK and documented his findings in a new tome entitled Abandoned Britain, published by Amberley Books. While the buildings he captured were left empty, "often to decay and slowly rot", the editor notes that "a ghostly presence from their former life remains".
The fascinating book on the coffee table offers an "evocative" glimpse of an array of forgotten places, from a waterless swimming pool in Merseyside to a rusty theme park in Lancashire and 'from a disused but still fully furnished farmhouse in Yorkshire to an 'aircraft graveyard' filled with planes collected by a former Spitfire pilot.
Tim Sanders of the Royal Photographic Society wrote a foreword to the book in which he describes some of the obstacles Simon faced when photographing such off-the-grid locations, noting that he sometimes worked in "vermin-infested environments, dusty and soiled with guano" which required him to wear a breathing apparatus.
The fascinating qualities of decay and neglect are brought to light in these haunting photos.
They are from Yorkshire-based photographer Simon Sugden, who has searched abandoned buildings across the UK and documented his findings in a new tome entitled Abandoned Britain, published by Amberley Books. While the buildings he captured were left empty, "often to decay and slowly rot", the editor notes that "a ghostly presence from their former life remains".
The fascinating book on the coffee table offers an "evocative" glimpse of an array of forgotten places, from a waterless swimming pool in Merseyside to a rusty theme park in Lancashire and 'from a disused but still fully furnished farmhouse in Yorkshire to an 'aircraft graveyard' filled with planes collected by a former Spitfire pilot.
Tim Sanders of the Royal Photographic Society wrote a foreword to the book in which he describes some of the obstacles Simon faced when photographing such off-the-grid locations, noting that he sometimes worked in "vermin-infested environments, dusty and soiled with guano" which required him to wear a breathing apparatus.
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