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Health

Old dentist’s chair and equipment beside a large window.

Le Dentiste

Health & care

An abandoned dental practice with a beautiful wooden staircase. Someone had once made an energetic start on a renovation, while…

Black operating table beneath two lights before double doors.

Sick Hospital

Health & care

Sick Hospital had only been empty for a short time when I photographed it. Some facilities were still present, and…

Overview of an empty operating room with a central table, ceiling lamp and purple door at the back.

Saint Joseph Hospital, Kerkrade

Architecture & heritage

Saint Joseph Hospital belongs to a time when a town having its own hospital seemed entirely natural. In Kerkrade, its…

Chapel with wooden pews, coloured windows and heavily peeling walls.

Agnus Dei convent

Religion & remembrance

Half burned out, partly collapsed and photographed endlessly already. Plenty of objects had been staged as well. Enough reasons to…

Abandoned operating room with a metal table, round surgical lights and green walls in dim light.

Hospital Exodus

Health & care

The photographs may suggest otherwise, but Hospital Exodus was already out of use when we visited. It was one of…

Abandoned yellow building with a rounded glazed extension and covered balconies.

Preventorium Dolhain

Health & care

Preventorium Dolhain was once a clinic for people with tuberculosis, including many children. As the disease became less common in…

Bathtub beneath a window among blue and white tiles.

Rusthuis DN

Health & care

This former home for older people stood in the Flemish part of Belgium and acquired the urbex name Rusthuis DN.The…

Long stainless-steel sink with dividers beneath windows beside a wooden door.

Salve Mater

Health & care

Salve Mater was a former psychiatric hospital comprising several buildings. Part of it was already being renovated during my visit,…