Liminal Spaces

Photographic essays on ruined institutions that are far more interested in why the places closed than in the broken glass.

Guided write-ups of the city's empty hospitals, airfields and amusement parks, complete with directions and a note on the fence situation.

Field reports and photographs of American shopping centres in decline, written by people who cared about this long before it was an aesthetic.

Photographs of the city's abandoned schools and factories, paired with the records of the people who taught and worked in them.

Street-level archaeology of the city — old lamp posts, painted signs and vanished railways, walked and documented since 1999.

Long-form expeditions into Japan's abandoned mines, hotels and theme parks, written by somebody who actually climbed in.

Directory of the emptied-out settlements of the American West, one short paragraph and one faded photograph at a time.

The channel that turned the Backrooms into found footage, shot with unnervingly good camera work and almost no music.

Documentation of the vast Victorian asylums built to one architectural theory of curing madness, most now empty or demolished.

Retail history blog named after the ghost outline a shop sign leaves behind, mapping the slow decline of the American mall.

Vintage photographs of shopping centres in their fountains-and-ferns prime, scanned from postcards and other people's family albums.

Twenty years of large-format photography inside abandoned asylums, power stations and factories, catalogued site by site.

Photographs of corridors, swimming pools and hotel lobbies with nobody in them, which is far more affecting than that sounds.