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Luxembourg Maison Kirsche
I first visited this house in Luxembourg in 2012 with Voytek and James and return late 2104 with Darren, Dursty and Nick, the amount of things left inside was incredible, it felt like the old man had never left the house. His slippers still under the bed, love letters still…
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Latvia Skrunda
In August 2013 I boarded a plane at Luton to go and meet with Lauris and Alex in Latvia. It was an 8 day trip and we drove many many miles through Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, photographing a tonne of amazing abandoned building’s for my book Soviet Ghost and we…
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Cambodia Choeung Ek Killing Fields
In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge lead by Pol Pot used terrible regimes and radical programs to try and cleanse the Cambodian people. They tortured and killed anyone that had connections with the old government, professionals and intellects, ethnic Vietnamese, Chinese, Thai, Christians, Catholics, Muslims, Buddhist monks and former urban dwellers…
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Underworld The Realm of the Dead
At the moment of death the soul departs from earth and makes it journey towards the underworld, realm of dead souls and where all earth dwellers find there final resting place.
We had an amazing shoot, was up at 5am, travelled from London with huge amounts of clothes, props and…
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Italy Chiesa dei Morti
The Church of the Dead, ‘Chiesa dei Morti’ in Urbania, is where these standing bodies over four centuries old reside. Their twisted forms stand eerily, creepily, in a wooden display cabinet in a small room. All have their own tales of how they died; Down syndrome, childbirth, stabbing. 18 mummies…
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Italy Poveglia
We visited the abandoned island of Poveglia near Venice; a place full of tragedy and death. For a long time, it was used as a hospital and quarantine station for plague victims and then was converted into an asylum for long term care of the mentally ill
These days, it…
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USA Bailey Mansion
In Connecticut lies the Bailey Mansion; abandoned and supposedly haunted, it is the inspiration for the murder house in the TV show ‘American Horror Story’.
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UK Beachy Head Eastbourne
Beachy Head is a beautiful cliff in Eastbourne, with a history full of tragedy. It is a notorious suicide hotspot with as many as 20 suicides a year and hundreds in its history. There are many people working in nearby pubs and driving local taxis who patrol the area, watching…
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Italy Mint Villa
A beautiful villa we found abandoned in Italy.
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Latvia Laboratory
This was a really exciting explore and one of my highlights for the trip to Latvia with Lauris and Alex, we visited this laboratory near the end of the trip and it wasn’t the easiest to get inside, Alex was happy that we got to use his rope ladder to…
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Philippines Sagada Hanging Coffins
I travelled by bus and jeepney to a mystical place in the far North of the Philippines, called Sagada. It took me days to reach. I stayed in a wooden hut and it was an incredible experience. My aim was to see the Hanging Coffins; coffins placed high up on…
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Philippines Kabayan Fire Mummies
I reached Manila in the Philippines on a warm evening in April. The next day, I took an eight-hour bus journey heading for Baguio where I would meet my guide. We took another bus to the mystical village of Kabayan a place so far away from civilisation and untouched by…
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Germany Dachau Concentration Camp
Dachau was the first Nazi concentration camp in Germany. In 1933 it was opened to hold political prisoners but later became a forced labor camp for Jews as well as German and Austrian criminals amongst others that invaded Germany. The conditions inside were horrific; people were tortured and more than…
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India Varanasi Cremation
In India, I spent three weeks in the holy lands of Varanasi, spending each day in a weird trancelike state, the power of spirituality constantly around me. I felt at home here, surrounded by the beauty of decay. I watched the cremation of bodies by the side of the river…
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Estonia Paterai Prison
I visited this prison with Lauris and Alex while on our 8 day road trip around Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. In 1828, Tsar Nicholas I of Russia commissioned the construction of a prison near Tallinn on the Estonian coast. It was completed in 1840 and remained in use until 2004…
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Italy Pompeii
Located in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, Pompeii was a Roman town which, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area, was mostly destroyed by pyroclastic flows and buried under a layer of ash and pumice between four and six meters (13 to 20 ft.) high during the…
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Germany The White Morgue
Its been a fascination and somewhat an attraction for me to find the morgue in the many abandoned hospitals I have visited over the last few years, it seems like a huge pull for me to go on a search for them, knowing that all hospitals have one, be it…
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France Chateau Lumiere
This beautiful chateau has been on my list for a very long time, but due to its distance, it was always one that would take lot longer to get to, but in 2014 I finally made it, we drove hours to get there and was disappointed when we finally made…
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Belgium Tree Mansion
This simple little house had great atmosphere, maybe it was the dead cat in the bedroom, whether it had been a longing pet who’s owner had died and left him with no food or just a stray, it defiantly pulled my heart strings from the word go. The straw strewn…
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UK The Ark
I will never forget this explore, we made our way to this abandoned synagogue on a three day road trip around the UK in summer 2014, we had a great time exploring it during the day and then returned later in the evening after a long day of exploring other…
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Belgium Maison Viron
I’ve been to this house a couple of times in 2014. I really love it as it still contains things like the babies pram, a cot, photos, furniture and other items including a wedding dress. As the wallpaper hangs off the walls and the floors bow under decay, there was…
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France Black Morgue
I made the trip to this abandoned sanatorium in the deepest woods of France, it wasn’t a great pull for me to come here until Dursty mentioned there was a morgue and it had a black stone mortuary table. My eyes light up and suddenly the rather boring hospitaI suddenly…
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Cuba Chinese Cemetery Barrio Chino
Havana’s Chinese cemetery Barrio Chino opened in the late 1800s and is the oldest cemetery in the Americas. There was once a flourishing Chinese community in Cuba but now there are very few and they are almost forgotten. The Chinese culture has been in deterioration for around 50 years, since…
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Belgium Piscine Crachoir
I have been to this swimming pool three times now, the first was an attempt back in 2011 on my very first Europe trip, we literally arrived at the pool took a walk around and then got yelled out by a man and his kid who told us not to…
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Czech Republic Sedlec Ossuary
While on a 12 day trip around Europe for Soviet Ghosts, we passed through the Czech Republic and, although nothing to do with the book, how could we pass a chance to see a church completely full of bones! It was incredible and despite the huge amounts of tourists and…
