Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wow. Great set of photos. It was like a regular city. Bowling Alley, Gym... Great bit of history to document. I am glad they allowed photographers to do that as once it is gone that bit of history will be gone. Aram -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Crawford Sent: Friday, May 11, 2018 12:16 AM To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> ; olympus at thomasclausen.net Subject: [Leica] Abandoned GE Factory Some of you will remember the photos I posted a few yrs ago of the General Electric factory complex in Fort Wayne that was shut down at the beginning of 2015. They were all shot from the street, because GE wouldn?t let anyone inside the fence to photograph. Last year, the city announced that they had found a developer to turn the sprawling 100 year old complex and its many buildings into apartments and retail spaces, with the development to be called Electric Works. Last month, the developers invited a small group of photographers to go inside some of the buildings to photograph, and I was one of them! This was personally important to me, beyond simply wanting to photograph the historic buildings for my documentary projects. My great-grandfather, Raymond Estes, and three of his sons all worked here decades ago. At one time, there were 25,000 workers in these buildings! When GE closed down the last of their operations in January, 2015 there were fewer than 100 employees left. Most of the buildings had been abandoned twenty years earlier. I finally got my photos edited and posted on my website. http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-results.php?category=110 -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-437-8990 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 Like My Work on Facebook