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100 Abandoned Houses

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It was started as a simple game to collect and photograph abandoned houses, the project 100 abandoned houses, was born about ten years ago in Detroit, one of the largest and most populous U.S. cities (much larger than San Francisco or Boston)…

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Andy Hemingway Light Graffiti

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Photography Andy Hemingway has produced a series of light graffiti in an abandoned warehouse in downtown Houston, Texas. With a slow-exposure, a flashlight and plenty of creativity, Hemingway shows an artful touch in this latest collection

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Knowledge is Power

 Knowledge is Power
East Side Branch Library, Gary Indiana

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Night Lights

 Night Lights

January 2009

“I picked up my camera and tripod and looked for a quick get away; someone in a white car slowed and looked at me from across the street, they then turned in my direction as I back peddled toward the woods. They slowed again and then took off in the direction they came from. They could have simply been lost and wondering what I was doing, but I was already in escape mode. They didn’t look like the most friendly of characters.”

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Human flowers by Cecelia Webber

Cecelia Webber was born in a forest town of only 1,500 people and spent much of her childhood in fields catching orange salamanders. She was a shy, socially awkward child who enjoyed reading and spent hours searching for small fairy creatures in abandoned maple sugar huts and dilapidated stonewalls. Oddly enough, as she grew older the world grew stranger and stranger. Questions revolved about in her head, knocking down reality’s framework with the force of bowling balls: Why are we made to feel so ashamed of the human body in Western culture and so much of the rest of the world? Isn’t the body a beautiful, wonderful thing, deserving nothing less than to be celebrated?

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Gary Screw and Bolt

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Recognized as one of the few early Gary industries independent of the U.S. Steel Corporation, the Gary Screw and Bolt Company enjoyed a successful seventy-five year life in northwest Indiana. In 1911, a group of Pittsburgh Screw and Bolt Corporation executives founded the Gary Screw and Bolt Company of Indiana on twenty acres of vacant land along East 7th Avenue. Production began in 1912 with 75-100 workers. In 1925, the Gary Company expanded to include the Continental Bolt and Iron Works in Chicago; five years later, the firm acquired the Hammond Bolt and Nut Company. Eventually, the Chicago and Hammond operations were consolidated at the Gary plant. The Company’s executive offices remained in the Peoples Gas Building at 122 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago… [continue reading ...]

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Union Station, Gary Indiana


Toys Illustrate the Devastation of Chernobyl

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This haunting series retells the Chernobyl accident through the portraits of forsaken toys from a very particular nursery in the abandoned city of Pripyat.

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City Methodist Church, Gary Indiana (2011 Blizzard)

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A view from inside the sanctuary of City Methodist Church in Gary Indiana after the 2011 blizzard.

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RESKATE

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Reskate, is born with the intention of rescuing that skateboard you abandoned where you left your teens behind; then they are reshaped and delivered to illustrators.

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