ABANDONED CHURCHES

Between 2012 and 2020, Francis Meslet photographed hundreds of abandoned places of worship in Europe; places that, with the passage of time, have given way to silence. Now you can only hear the whisper of the wind passing through a broken window or the regular rhythm of the drops of water sliding down the roof of the nave of a destroyed church. However, these silences attract a few visitors. In that German church, prayers were recited in Latin, in that French Catholic school, the cries of the children resounded to the sound of their bell. But who can imagine the sounds buried behind the walls of this crypt in the heart of the Italian mountains or in the tomb of this old convent in Portugal? Francis Meslet travels the entire world in his spare time in search of forgotten places, sanctuaries where time stood still when man closed its doors.