"Left Behind" is the title image from the “Left Behind” series comprised of several hundred photographs taken on the sites of so-called “ghost towns,” the deserted mining towns in California, New Mexico, and Arizona, where life once was full of hope and promise and which now are left forlornly to deteriorate. Together with my other series with the focus on the themes of transience and impermanence, it is a reflection on discarded things and abandoned places of the past, whose worth is not in the conventional attractiveness or market value but in the priceless memories they evoke, and whose history, in a way, is not less important than that of the ruins of Pompei or Macchu Picchu.