The Forgotten Room
Places shaped by time. Still holding what was left behind.
The Forgotten Room is a broader collection of limited edition fine art prints exploring churches, abandoned rooms and places shaped by time. These are not photographs of decay. They are photographs of what remains when the people have gone — the quiet, accumulated presence that lingers in stone, wood and shadow long after purpose has moved on.
A forgotten place doesn’t stay silent forever — it keeps something of the people who left it, an idea explored further in Photography, Memory and the Presence of Absence, where absence itself becomes the clearest evidence that someone was once there.
The work belongs to the same underlying pursuit explored across the wider practice in Making Silence Visible — the attempt to make silence visible without explaining it away. In these spaces the boundary between what was used and what is now remembered has never been entirely settled.
They simply remain — and ask to be felt.
I have been walking into rooms like these since I was thirteen. There was a manor near where I grew up in Trowbridge, gone now, taken down before I ever understood what it was. The floors gave underfoot. The air was thick with damp plaster and mould, thick enough almost to taste, and the wallpaper had peeled away from walls that no longer had any reason to stand. I did not have the words for it then. I only knew the quiet in that house was a different kind of quiet from anywhere else — heavier, and somehow still occupied. Everything I photograph now, I photograph looking for that same silence.
A home is abandoned once, by one family. A hotel is abandoned a thousand times before anyone notices — a departure explored room by room in The Last Guest, where the beds were made one final morning and never turned down again.
Every print is released as a strictly limited edition of five on museum-grade 100% cotton rag. Once an edition closes, it does not reopen. Full details on materials, editioning and what travels with every piece are on the Prints & Editions page.
Print Details — The Forgotten Room
Size: 24×16 inches (standard) — larger sizes available on request
Paper: 100% cotton rag, museum-grade, archival
Edition: Strictly limited to 5 + 2 artist proofs
Certificate: Signed and numbered, issued with every print
Price: From £295 complete (gallery framed option available)
These are for people who understand that kind of quiet — who want a room in their own home to hold it, and to keep holding it long after the first look. If you are deciding on scale, placement, or how a piece like this begins a collection, that thinking is set out in How to Collect Fine Art.
I am still, at heart, that boy standing on a floor that might give way, listening to a house that had not finished saying what it had to say. This collection sits alongside the other main bodies of work in The Collections, with ongoing reflections throughout the fine art blog.