Thomas Browning Rose captures a bleak, abandoned college

The term “ruin porn” gets thrown around a lot to describe images of abandoned buildings and architectural forms that have fallen into disrepair. The Atlantic have published essays on the psychological reasons we’re incapable of tearing our eyes from it, and Detroit has become the poster city for this captivating genre of destructive, bleak photography – in fact it seems to be a genre that’s almost exclusively American.

But London-based photographer Thomas Browning Rose has produced an alluring series of images of Rolle College in Exmouth, Devon; a former teacher training facility abandoned in 2009. Thomas’ photographs focus on the empty classrooms, hallways, gym and campus bookshop of the old institution, offering a voyeuristic exploration of a building that was once at the heart of the Exmouth community, and then controversially left to rot.