“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.
“I think we only love abandoned houses because they remind us of ourselves.”
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These images focus on absence just as much as they focus on presence. Human activity is rarely visible, yet it is everywhere implied: in objects left behind, in structures slowly giving way, 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.