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In pictures: Powerful new exhibition captures the eerie loneliness of deserted places

Photos of places left behind

Biscoe House. Image: Christopher James


Some things are better left behind. Pictured above is Biscoe House, a key outpost of the Norwegian whaling trade on Deception Island off the coast of Antarctica, left deserted since the 1960s. The photograph by Chris James is part of Abandoned, an exhibition of international photographers at the Glasgow Gallery of Photography, exploring both the external and internal meanings of the word. 

Image: Ethan McOustra

After he left

Image: Annick Staindl

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Deserted (Princelet Street, Spitalfields, East London)

Image: David Rhys-Jones

Lost Douglas DC-3 – the remains of a plane that crashed in Southern Iceland in 1973, with all crew surviving

Image: Alison Park-Douglas


Abandoned is showing until 31 January.

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