These 15 images form my Associateship panel for the Royal Photographic Society. For blog post see http://www.vivecakohphotography.co.uk/2011/06/my-arps-panel-left-behind/

These fifteen photographs are also available for purchase in my Blurb published book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2492886?ce=blurb_ew&utm_source=widget

Statement of Intent : "Left Behind"

Abandoned buildings and the objects within them are the most fascinating of photographic subjects, one that will always engage my attention and utmost respect as a photographer. When the people leave a building for the last time, what remains of their possessions is poignant and at the same time heart-breaking. Mundane everyday items still imprinted with the memory of their old owners - Bond Street shoes for a tiny feminine foot, bottles of pills well past their "use by" date, a typewriter on which someone may have written their magnum opus, even the casualties of abandonment such as the butterfly that flew in unawares to become forever trapped in thick spider-webs - and always, everywhere, so many varieties of chairs. These treasures left behind deserve to be photographed as still life portraits, and turned into modern works of art that are altogether more sublime, because for me, there really is beauty in decay.