city views

Some more scenes from our recent photo's. One of the important things were trying to do with this project is stay away from simply shooting obvious decay and destruction; often referred to as Ruin Porn. Detroit offers many quiet scenes that most people just pass by. They tend to offer a more true and often more desolate version of what the city is really like.

NEW PHOTOS

Lots more to come. Working print shots only at this stage. Enjoy.

back from 313

I just got back from some more time in Detroit. Lots of new photos to post. My brain was sore after being there only a few days. The overall breadth of the continued decay and destruction is really sad. It's gotten far worse in only a year and after criss crossing the city from east to west and the river to 8 mile, you really realize the full scope of things. More than anything I just feel sad that it has come to this. Check this video out of robinwood st...from a few years ago..and some of those house are no longer standing or have been torched.
http://detroitnews.com/article/20090514/METRO08/905140408/Charlie-LeDuff--Off-Woodward--life-hits-a-dead-end

FRESH FARM

There has been an ever increasing amount of media coverage on the "new farm" idea that is taking over Detroit. Food co-ops and fresh collectives that are transforming the city's eating habits...unfortunately not true. Most journalists are parachuted in for 24 or 48 hrs. and given a "tour" of all the renewed ideas sweeping the city. Much like the tours that are given in Communist countries to show how "happy" all the workers are. No doubt there is some good ideas and some amazing people who, despite huge odds are trying with noble ideas to change the landscape of how people get food. It is however, for anyone who has really spent time there, a mere "piss in the ocean" in terms of the overall scope of what is happening. Here's the latest article from the NY times. Well written and intended. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/imagining-detroit/