Urban and Rural Decay Photography

Introduction

I don’t know what it is about decay that attracts us as photographers. Maybe it just reminds us of our own mortality and our fleeting time on this planet. Maybe it’s just the simple beauty we as photographers can dig out of the ugliness of a collapsing and deteriorating structure. I’ve been attracted to decay photography for as long as I can remember being attracted to photography itself. One of the things that always struck me is that I wanted to know the stories about the people that inhabited or worked in these places. I wanted to know why they left behind the things that they did and what drove them away. Photographing what is left gives us a connection to people whose stories we many never know, but that we can try to illustrate ...