Photos of abandoned buildings across the UK to go on display in new exhibition

Photographer Simon Sudgen spent years exploring derelict sites across Britain

Abandoned and derelict buildings from across the UK are to feature in a new photography exhibition later this month.

Entitled "The Beauty in Decay,", Simon Sudgen has spent over a decade capturing the images in decaying farmhouses, mills and even cinemas around Britain.

He said he seeked to show the beauty in buildings that have been abandoned by humans.

“There is like a second life to them,” the 51-year-old added. “After they have been used and are decaying, they can be looked at negatively but there is beauty in decay.”

“It’s just showing where I have been over that time, I never damage anything, I never break in, I just go in there and get the pictures. There is an old farmhouse I got into Snowdonia, it has a yellow fireplace, which was amazing. It is like a little time capsule.

The exhibition, which will showcase 15 images and a large centrepiece of a scrapyard in Shipley which is currently still in use, will run from 20 July to 8 September at the Cliffe Castle Museum in Keighley, West Yorkshire.