This image is from an exhibition at the Wilmotte Gallery in London. From 2005 French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre collaborated over a five-year period to photograph Detroit's abandoned buildings. Their images are compelling, as though the city has been abandoned by its population, falling into decay but still echoing with its former inhabitants' presence. As a child I played in abandoned buildings, and these buildings held a faint remnant of human presence, but they were submerged in a larger, bustling landscape, whereas downtown Detroit seems to have had its living presence hollowed out. And perhaps what adds to this quality of strangeness is that it's taking place in north America, a place of the new and the future. If Detroit were a person, it would be Miss Havisham. To see more of Marchand and Meffre's images, click here.
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