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    Ian Willms, 2007 - 2009

    The destructive results of short-sited capitalistic decision-making in the failing North American industrial sector.

    The photographs in "Detroit" have been captured with an inexpensive plastic camera called the 'Holga'. Devoid of the technological advancements we see in cameras today, the 'Holga' featuring both a plastic lens and body was originally produced en-masse in the 1980's for working-class families in China.

    The photographs of "Detroit" have a ghostly quality that closely resembles the photographic aesthetic of the 1920's- a time when Detroit was booming with social and industrial prosperity.

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