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My “abandoned building photographs” are buildings not occupied. The difference between empty and abandoned is a loss of hope. Someone once wrote that my images are devoid of people, but not of their influence. There are no people in my photographs, but there is the promise of their return. I have seen lots of photographs of empty places, abandoned buildings and ruined city blocks where you were pretty certain the people were gone and there was no hope that anyone would return. I try to show that even if the buildings are empty, there is enough inherent beauty in the place to entice someone to return and attempt to improve upon what is there.
I think it’s important to try to maintain a positive view of the world and try to show my audience the beauty and artful arrangement of things that they would normally not see. This could happen because they have not been to a place I have been or they have not taken the time to look carefully at the world around them. I feel my role as an artist is show the world in a way to inspire or expand the audience’s view of the world.
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