The Last Breath of Beauty Book 1 & 2 (coming soon / seeking publisher)
A study of the fading grandeur of Europe, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Australia — power stations, textile mills, chapels, villas, palazzi, and châteaux left to time’s quiet dominion. These photographs don’t glorify decay. They confront what remains when a civilisation stops believing beauty matters. Each frame serves as cultural memory — a trace of labour, ornament, faith, and ambition once etched into stone, steel, and timber. Spaces where industry roared like a promise and devotion carved meaning into walls now stand in silence, surrendering to dust and moss.
Echoes of Abandonment is not nostalgia. It is evidence — that we once built for permanence, and that forgetting is an active act, paid in cultural amnesia and the erosion of dignity in our built world.
Memories of Australia: Abandoned Buildings and Their Stories (2021, Schaeffer Publishing USA)
A 240-page study of Australia’s forgotten industrial and cultural fabric. Here, factories, rural homes, and sacred spaces stand not as ruins, but as testimonies to a nation still learning how to remember itself. This work documents places we built with conviction, relied upon, and then discarded once they no longer served our pace or our pride.
In a country that often confuses demolition with progress, these structures reveal the cost of convenience and the fragility of cultural memory. They are not relics of failure, but records of ambition, labour, and belief — proof that meaning once guided our built world. Memories of Australia argues that history is not inherited by accident; it must be preserved with intent, before the silence of erasure becomes permanent.
