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DAY 150 | SOCIAL & POLITICAL COMMENTARY |
Urban Decay
FINDING A POINT OF VIEW
Documenting urban decay sends photographers into cities searching for areas that have become disenfranchised, separated, and cut off from the flow of prosperity. Urban decay begins to look the same, no matter what city or state it is found in, unless the photographer begins to probe its causes.
Capturing causes reveals the history behind the decay. Causes are myriad—changes in modes of transportation; the building of highways, road and rail lines that divide populations; the closing of industrial facilities or failed attempts to create jobs; contaminated parcels ...
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