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Jay Farrell

    Jay Farrell is a documentary and fine art photographer whose work delves into the skeletal remains of forgotten structures. His photographic adventures, chronicled in his books, combine explorations of rural backroads and urban blight with the known history of these abandoned locations. Farrell's objective is to immerse the reader in his discoveries, making them participants in the uncovering of these neglected spaces.

    Abandoned Schools of Tennessee
    Abandoned Tennessee Treasures
    Abandoned South Mississippi
    Abandoned Indiana
    Abandoned Memphis
    • 2022

      Abandoned Tennessee Treasures

      • 96 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      Abandoned Tennessee Treasures is a collection of photography and adventures featuring nostalgic abandoned and forgotten roadside gems from yesteryear. Photographer and storyteller, Jay Farrell, takes you along multiple journeys through Tennessee's less traveled backroads in the plains of West Tennessee, the Cumberland Plateau, the East Tennessee hills, and points north and south. Take a step back in time as forgotten country general stores tell stories of their past glory involving creaking wood floors and screen doors, penny candy jars, community gathering, bologna sandwiches, and ice-cold Coca-Colas in the ice water bin. Several forgotten Victorian-era homes with unique shapes and interesting contents left behind also grace the pages of this title. Let us not forget the old-time gas station with the ding-ding, mechanic on duty, full-service gas pumps, and travel maps. Old defunct churches (from the days of outhouses and hand fans as air conditioners), a hidden one-room schoolhouse, antique cars and trucks slowly sinking into the fields, and so much more are showcased in this nostalgic title.

      Abandoned Tennessee Treasures
    • 2021

      Abandoned Schools of Tennessee

      • 112 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      Abandoned structures are places that open the imagination and invite interpretation. Crumbling bricks, distressed steel, paint, wood, and weathered remnants of human life are crossed by time, vandalism, and animal tracks, inviting one to picture what once was. Derelict buildings offer a unique, distressed beauty. While often overlooked by passers-by, their skeletal remains act as the perfect subject for the lens of a camera, quietly waiting to be documented and shared. Abandoned Schools of Tennessee takes you on a field trip, looking inside schools that once witnessed children's laughter and learning, years or even decades after the last lesson was taught. Readers will enjoy a visually detailed, narrated tour of the remains of rural one-room schoolhouses in East Tennessee, a bone-chilling youth detention center, and other former learning institutions taken over by time and miscreants. Readers are encouraged to explore the forgotten corners of the state, see the world through different eyes, and take the long road home.

      Abandoned Schools of Tennessee
    • 2020

      Abandoned Indiana

      • 96 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      Abandoned structures are places that open the imagination and invite interpretation. Distressed wood and weathered remnants of human life are crossed by time and animal tracks, inviting one to picture what once was. Abandoned homes and buildings offer a unique, distressed beauty. While often overlooked by passers-by, their skeletal remains act as the perfect subject for the lens of a camera, quietly waiting to be documented and shared. Abandoned Indiana explores this haunting narrative and display of photos by urban explorer and photographer, Jay Farrell. You will enjoy a nice variety of charming forgotten farmhouses of rural Indiana surrounded by open fields and whistling wind, and some of Indiana's former industrial glory. Readers are encouraged to explore the forgotten corners of the state, see the world through different eyes, and take the long road home.

      Abandoned Indiana
    • 2020

      Abandoned South Mississippi

      • 96 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      Abandoned South Mississippi uncovers the mystery of the wide variety of abandoned locations explored by author and photographer, Jay Farrell. Readers will enjoy being a fly on the wall during a multi-day excursion to South Mississippi's towns and rural backroads, far away from roaming tourists. The distress and skeletal remains of the antebellum homes, country general stores, churches, industrial buildings, and more are photographed and researched in an effort to tell their forgotten stories. Photographs and narratives take readers along for the ride, bringing them back to a different place and time, safe from the risks found within the haunting, dilapidated buildings. Southern hospitality, home cooking, beautiful meadows, cotton fields, quaint small towns, and the beautiful Gulf Coast are all common associations with South Mississippi--this inside look explores the darker elements of the region that the average passerby would not dare examine.

      Abandoned South Mississippi
    • 2020

      Abandoned Memphis

      • 128 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      Abandoned structures are places that open the imagination and invite interpretation. Distressed buildings and weathered remnants of human life are crossed by time and transient inhabitants, inviting one to picture what once was. While often overlooked by passers-by, their skeletal remains act as the perfect subject for the lens of a camera, quietly waiting to be documented and shared. Abandoned Memphis explores this haunting narrative through a display of photos by urban explorer and photographer, Jay Farrell. In this book, you'll enjoy a variety of derelict structures in the inner city, including iconic abandoned Memphis factories, a defunct school, and other rusted remains of Bluff City. Readers are encouraged to explore the forgotten corners of the state, see the world through different eyes, and take the long road home.

      Abandoned Memphis