I was photographing the old Bank of New South Wales/Westpac building at 452 Fitzgerald Street, North Perth, when I started chatting to a lovely lady named Marie.

Conversations with a stranger that starts over something simple and ends up covering far more than expected on the newly developed grounds of the former Princess Margaret Hospital in Subiaco.

During the early 1950s, Western Australia was in the grip of a housing crisis. Families desperate for a roof over their heads often had no choice but to sign whatever contracts builders placed in front of them. With this in mind, the building firm Snowden & Willson became the subject of one of the most controversial inquiries in WA’s post-war history.

Social media is a double edged sword, making urbex locations trashed so much quicker.