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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Steven Morris

‘Wonderful decay’: photos pay tribute to rust and peeling paint of rainy Wales

Rusty cars
Pontiago, Pembrokeshire (2006) from Peeling Paint and Rust by David Wilson. The landscape photographer says his book tells a story of rural Wales. Photograph: David Wilson

There is a glorious melancholy in the images. A crumbling petrol station, a pair of abandoned cars, a caravan that could once have been towed on myriad, jolly holidays and is now abandoned on a hilltop.

A collection of beautiful photographs taken by the Welsh landscape photographer David Wilson drawn together in a book called Peeling Paint and Rust is a hymn to decay, and a respectful nod to the power of his country’s rain and damp.

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