On Friday I had a roof to basement tour of the remaining 45,000 square feet of Guelph's former W.C. Woods Factory: the building that housed the offices of the CEO/owner and the staff cafeteria, an early 1900's addition and the restored stone distillery (built in 1979), with 5 enormous 1800's whiskey distilling barrels in a tiny stone room underneath it! There were so many things I wanted to...
The Mishkan Yisroel Synagogue or Blaine Shul as it was known because of its address on Blaine St, moved to this site in 1925. After the Jewish community migrated North of 8 Mile in the 1950's the building was sold to African-American baptist church group and was home to the New Mt. Moriah Baptist Church and God’s Inspirational Kingdom Church until 2003. The building, like all that is abandoned...
Last month I spent a weekend exploring Cleveland with the TLR Club and had the chance to photograph the ruined interior of the St. Joseph’s Byzantine Church. The doors to the church were labeled by the fire department with double slashes indicating that all efforts to contain a fire should be limited to the exterior "with entry only after a risk-versus-reward assessment has been completed" due to structural/interior...
Another image from my new distressed negs/transparencies series. It seemed fitting to set fire to a negative of an abandoned home in Detroit's Highland Park.
