[Leica] Abandoned GE Factory

[Don Dory]

As stated earlier, this is very important work documenting things and spaces before they change.  Bowling and basketball before Silicon Valley, now we know.  Excellent photography to boot.

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> On May 11, 2018, at 3:16 AM, Christopher Crawford <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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> 
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