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See more of Ed Freeman's work, including a handful of before and after photos over on his website.

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A Paris art gallery, Galerie Itinerrance has invited 105 visual artists from around the world to decorate the empty apartments (inside and out) of a nine-storey social housing tower slated for demolition. The public is invited to visit the largest temporary graffiti street art project, over 4,500 square meters of ground space spread over nine floors, during the month of October before demolition starts. Above, a bedroom painted by Portuguese street artist Mario Belem inside the street art project tower 'Paris Tour 13'.Pictures: REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen

Frozen in Time: Niki Feijen

Family life frozen in time: Eerie images of the abandoned farm houses where even the beds are still made

• Photographer Niki Feijen specialises in urban exploration; capturing boarded-up buildings and decaying farm houses
• Images reveal furniture and clothes that remain in decaying homes where owners have long since departed

By KERRY MCDERMOTT

PUBLISHED: 04:07 EST, 30 April 2013 | UPDATED: 01:57 EST, 1 May 2013

From the pile of books in the bedside cabinet to the neatly folded duvet, this bedroom looks almost ready for its owner to turn in for the night.

Aside, that is, from the peeling walls, patches of damp, and the thick layer of filth shrouding everything in the room.

The eerie photograph is part of a series by Dutch photographer Niki Feijen, who has captured furniture, ornaments and clothes frozen in time in homes where the owners have long since departed.

Empty: The bed is still covered by a neatly folded duvet in this abandoned farm house - but it's unlikely anybody would want to sleep in it

The photographer specialises in urban exploration; going beyond 'do not enter' signs to document boarded-up houses and dilapidated buildings across western Europe.

 

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His Disciple of Decay series features abandoned family homes that must once have been filled with conversation and laughter, but now house only the crumbling belongings of their former occupants.

One picture shows a bedroom that remains almost exactly as it was left, from the paintings hanging on the walls, to a television on a chest of drawers and a lace covering on the dressing table.

Another reveals a darkened living room with ornaments lining a sideboard, and a pair of shoes resting on the floor in front of an empty armchair.

Other images capture buildings in far worse states of repair, from the crumbling ceiling in a once-grand piano room, to a rotting table and chairs in an abandoned farmhouse.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2316987/Photographer-Niki-Feijens-eerie-images-abandoned-farm-houses.html#ixzz2UT13Hsz5
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