Excellent series Chris, I particularly like #3, #8, #12 & #13.
...Wayne
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Subject: [OM] 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
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Fine Art Photography
Fort Wayne, Indiana
260-437-8990
http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798
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