Date: January 20, 2013 You may not know this about me, but I have a long history of mental illness. I suffer from severe depression, which has resulted in a history of suicide attempts, self-mutilation, and other self-destructive behavior. I’m medicated now, so I’m mostly okay, but I still have seasonal depression that plunges me …
Photographing abandoned buildings is one of my great loves; the other is photographing winter. Unlike so many of my camera-loving peers, I don’t get depressed when winter hits, I get giddy. When it snows, I resent having to be at work instead of Out There where the beauty is. So, when the first polar vortex …
Date of Visit: January 12, 2013 Abandoned apartment buildings seem like they would be fascinating explorations: all those rooms full of hints into the lives of the people who once lived there! And I’m sure they are if you hit them at the right time. Unfortunately, most of the apartment buildings I’ve been in are …
Date of Visit: January 6, 2013 This factory was built in 1921 as a paper mill and packaging producer for a major American snack maker, who used the facilities until 1984. The factory is interesting because it’s built along a canal and utilized hydroelectric power. There are still remnants of the original canal works along …
Date of Visit: December 22, 2012 Okay, I confess – I’m a hopeless sentimentalist. After my parents died, I went through my childhood home and searched every nook and cranny, looking at old cancelled checks, receipts, insurance policies, manuals to long-lost television sets, blueprints for the house, etc. – gleaning every little tiny piece of …
Date of Visit: December 22, 2012 This is Mr. Toad. He was a towboat parked along the Illinois River near the town of Chillicothe, Illinois. He was built by the Alexander Shipyards of New Orleans in 1951. His original named was “Coal King” but he also went by “A.V. Criss,” “Ethel Marie” and “Eva Mae …
I’m excited to announce that I’ve started up a Society6 shop! I’ve added a few photographs at this point – prints and some iPhone cases – and I will continue to add items as I work on populating this website further. Please let me know if you’re interested in purchasing a print for a photograph …
Date of Visit: December 22, 2012 There’s a reason why I don’t reveal much information about the places I photograph. It’s because, Bastards. I have genuine love for these old structures, and a fascination for the stories they can tell me. When I go to a new location, I research as much as I can …
Date of Visit: July 14, 2012 Sometimes when I walk into abandoned structures, the vast grandeur is almost overwhelming. It seems inconceivable that a structure built with such immense effort, and skill, and care, could be allowed to rot away. Church sanctuaries are among the most tragic because there is a special degree of difficulty …
Date of Visit: July 14, 2012 This is a Baptist Church built in 1924. The congregation ran into financial difficulties during its construction, so the reverend called upon everyone in the church to help build it. And they did, and they continued to reside here in this simple Greek Revival structure for nearly 80 years, …
Date of Visit: December 2, 2012 I didn’t think much of the idea of exploring an old cement factory. It doesn’t sound like the most photogenic place, does it? But I was pleasantly surprised by this location, an old factory in Indiana that closed around 1995. The climb to the top of the facility was …
Date of Visit: December 2, 2012 I don’t know a lot about this building. What I do know is that it was built in 1926, it housed a car dealership, a furniture shop, and a record store at various stages in its life, and it contained a number of apartments. Now it stands with no …