When photographing abandoned rooms I was interested in how the rooms, often pared down to their structural features, came into their own when most of the normal reference points were removed.

A furnished room will always be identified by it's contents, whereas an empty room is a structure, a shape. When I discovered those environments, often in semi-darkness, the otherness and oddness stood out. What might have been a living room or a bedroom became a mystical space with its own identity.

In my photograph, however, the debris and emptyness seemed far more prominent. The 'shabbyness' overshadowed what I had sensed initially. By mirroring the images the focus shifted again to the quaint uniqueness of the places.