Iris Maynard/ Abandoned

Iris Maynard is a street and documentary photographer whose work focuses on urban solitude, abandoned spaces, and the emotional traces left within everyday environments. Through quiet observations of forgotten cars, industrial landscapes, empty streets, and fleeting human presence, her photography explores themes of memory, decay, displacement, and resilience.


Her visual language is rooted in atmospheric storytelling, often balancing cinematic darkness with documentary realism. Influenced by post-Soviet urban spaces and the unnoticed poetry of ordinary life, she approaches photography as a way of preserving suspended moments - places and objects caught between disappearance and survival.


Her works have been positively recognized internationally for their strong sense of isolation, emotional tension, and reflection on overlooked urban narratives. Working primarily within street photography and documentary aesthetics, she continues to build long-term visual series centered around abandonment, silence, and the fragile relationship between people and the environments they leave behind.