Photo essay: British photographer Anthony Gerace has produced a series of images offering a snapshot of the crumbling architecture and infrastructure of Cornwall ? a stronghold of the Brexit campaign (+ slideshow).
The photographs show buildings, street furniture and scenery around the coastline of St Just, a 15-minute drive from Land's End ? the most westerly part of the UK.
Despite receiving millions in investment from the European Union, Cornwall voted overwhelmingly to leave during the UK's EU referendum. The result was seen as a statement about the neglect of the region by the British government.
Although Gerace's Land's End series was shot well before the referendum, the photographer said it only came together as a portrait of the area after the vote. According to Gerace the images suggest a sense of isolation, attrition and uncertainty. "Britain is pretty scary at the moment, and is willing to become worse if it lets itself," said the photographer.
The result is similar to his Box Elder Country series, shot in Utah, which chronicled the area's "total sense of abandonment" through images of abandoned buildings and rusting road signs.
In this short essay, Gerace explains his attempt to "parse meaning from constructed objects to try and get at something about people that's hopefully emotional and usually sentimental".

In April 2015 I stood on a cliff in a light rain overlooking a shipwreck, near enough to Land's End, in Cornwall, havin...