Beautiful, haunting photographs of abandoned places in Australia. The ultimate visual reference in Australian urban exploration.

Barren red deserts dotted with post-colonial ghost towns, dilapidated inner city factories, discarded country homesteads and a succession of dormant, soot-filled power stations are just a handful of the desolate, yet visually rich narratives that form part of the abandoned Australia landscape.

Digging beneath the sun-baked soil, Shane Thoms uncovers the modern ruins scattered over this arid continent and reveals a series of beautifully broken abodes hiding in the crevices of the Great Southern Land. Whispering of both long-gone happy family moments and human darkness, of working lives and the everyday pursuits of living, these atmospheric scenes allow us to reconstruct the stories of the past. Prompting conversations about a growing, diverse country with a complicated history, these abandoned places both connect as well as contrast the past and the present and chronicle the hidden remnants of the evolving Australian story.

美丽迷人的澳大利亚废墟照片。探索澳大利亚城市的重要视觉参考。

荒芜的红色沙漠中点缀着后殖民时代的鬼城、破旧的城市内部工厂、废弃的乡村家园和一连串充满煤烟的废弃发电站，这些只是构成澳大利亚废弃景观的一小部分荒凉但视觉丰富的叙述。

沙恩·索姆斯（Shane Thoms）在被太阳烘烤的土壤下挖掘出散落在这片干旱大陆上的现代废墟，并揭示出一系列隐藏在南方大地上的美丽的破旧住所。这些大气的场景让我们能够重建过去的故事，这些场景既包括久违的幸福家庭时刻，也包括人类的黑暗，包括工作生活和日常的追求。这些废墟既连接了过去，也对比了现在，并记录了不断发展的澳大利亚故事的隐秘遗迹，从而引发了关于这个不断增长、具有复杂历史的国家的对话。