Photographer Matt Emmett seeks beauty in places that are no longer open to the public – derelict and forgotten. During his travels through Europe, he has captured various sites from abandoned hotels to power stations and makes an effort to research
This used to be a surgery room at an abandoned psychiatric hospital. The place was well-known in the 1930s for being one of the pioneering sites for research and where the now-banned treatment of frontal lobe lobotomy was practiced.
An underground reservoir located in London, England dates back to the Victorian era.
This was the long hallway of a military hospital where American soldiers were nursed back to health during the Gulf War. Emmett feels that such places remind us about the unstoppable force of nature and how nothing man-made can fight against the
This picture of a ruined colonnade enshrouded in foliage is reportedly one of Emmett’s favourites.
A living room in England, which is no longer in use, features an old television that still sits by the window.
These were the wooden cabinets that were used to hold information regarding the patients at a psychiatric hospital in Northern Italy.
Interestingly, this abandoned Italian villa was converted into a psychiatric hospital in the 1800s.
The unusual-looking structure pictured above was actually built by an artist to shelter himself and his sheep. It is situated on a private property in the Cotswolds, England.
Even as the walls of the entrance hall are adorned with fresco paintings, this large abandoned villa complex is now just a shadow of its former grand self.
This library in a manor house in England has been left to decay because it has no visitors.