Beat Hauser's work reclaims the beauty of forgotten industrial buildings. His photographs celebrate these spaces' dreamlike silence and emptiness while highlighting their forgotten architecture. This piece captures an abandoned textile factory at the Adda river in Lombardy, a region in northern Italy
Beat has been photographing industrial areas and abandoned spaces in Europe since 2003. He researches information about the locations he visits and gathers historical postcards, old letterheads, labels and advertisements to document the history of the places. Beat lives in Rheinfelden near Basel, Switzerland.