Yeah, I'm way late on this...
JANUARYAbandoned, historic movie theater torn down several months later. Power was still on at the time of my visits, one night I kicked on the marquee for the last time.
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FEBRUARY Partially-abandoned hospital with only the ground-floor ER that was in the process of winding-down, and the still-active psych ward on 3 operating. The facility had just been sold... days later it rebranded and became strictly a psych ward on the third floor, which is eventually destined to move into a remodeled building on the property. This historic part of the complex's fate will then be decided. The odds aren't in its favor.
Some of these are film, this was my first field test of my 6x9 camera based on the Polaroid 600SE (a neutered Mamiya Press). As the year went on it grew on me more and more.
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FEBRUARY-MARCH First few visits to Northridge Mall.
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APRIL Jamestown Mall. Permission explore thanks to connections with the firm prepping it for demolition.
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JUNE - AUGUST Northridge return visits, photographing the mall and recovering things like the mall's photo and VHS archives while the local destructive types began to utterly ravage the place.
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JULY-OCTOBERVarious things between Chicago-NWI area. Started doing a lot of night stuff on film.
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SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER More Northridge, mostly on film including some Black Friday rooftop fun.
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NOVEMBERAbandoned church/school complex near Northridge, now in the process of demolition.
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DECEMBER Historic city bank building abandoned for about a decade.
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And finally: abandoned top floors of a tarnished, once world-famous department store. These floors have been sold and are in the process of being gutted for conversion into a mixed-use development, while a downsized retail operation continues below. Unfortunately very photo-light due to active security and spending most of the time finding a way out undetected.
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