“Urbex & Rurex” is a photographic exploration of abandonment across urban and rural landscapes in the UK. Moving between abandoned factories, vacant homes, neglected machinery, and overgrown fields, the project explores spaces that rest just beyond active use—places where time lingers rather than passes by.
“Beauty can be seen in all things…”
Matt Hardy
These images emphasise absence as much as they emphasise presence. Human activity is seldom visible, yet it is always implied: in objects left behind, in structures slowly giving way, and in the quiet persistence of decay. Urban areas reflect industry, obsolescence, and changing economies; rural areas exhibit a slower, more organic form of decline, as nature gradually reclaims what we built.
Working in a documentary style, the photographs resist dramatisation. Instead, they attend to detail, texture, and atmosphere—subtle signs of transition that often go unnoticed. Across both environments, the work becomes a study of impermanence: of how we use, discard, and ultimately allow spaces to be absorbed back into the landscape.