Below you will find photos from my portfolios of abandoned spaces taken in France and Belgium between the spring of 2008 and the spring of 2009. As a photographer who likes to take his time these places were a nirvana of sorts, sometimes waiting for an hour for the right light and shadow to coalesce. In many ways I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to visit some of these forgotten gems, these places which have left their mark on the environment and now they are left to rot and decay, each one with a bizarre tale to tell.
I would say that I take a cinematic approach to my work, I constantly attempt to bring the viewer with me to the space, to transport the viewer into my world and try to convey the emotion that I experience in these places, you can't help but be overwhelmed standing on cautiously on rotting beams looking out a window onto the picturesque Belgian countryside with 4 floors below you, these places are charged with an ethereal energy, like a mist in the air, you taste, feel, hear and see the ghosts of what once was.
I would say that I take a cinematic approach to my work, I constantly attempt to bring the viewer with me to the space, to transport the viewer into my world and try to convey the emotion that I experience in these places, you can't help but be overwhelmed standing on cautiously on rotting beams looking out a window onto the picturesque Belgian countryside with 4 floors below you, these places are charged with an ethereal energy, like a mist in the air, you taste, feel, hear and see the ghosts of what once was.
Chateau Miranda Belgium 2008
Hospital B Normandie France 2008
Abandoned farm house Picardie Region France 2008
Hospital B Normandie France 2008
Hospital B Normandie France 2008
Abandoned castle Essonne France 2009
View from the top floor of Chateau Miranda Belgium 2008
Hospital B Normandie France 2008
Abandoned house Picardie region France
Abandoned workshop Picardie Region France
All photographs the property of Kale J. Friesen and may not be copied or used without written consent.
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