Abandoned

During my time in Baltimore, I explored abandoned buildings in and outside of the city with a small point-and-shoot camera.  I never had a fancy lens to capture these images, but the photos did serve as a unique lens into the untold story of my childhood.

It represented the place I refused to visit or care for - where my innocence was stolen, left broken and torn apart, unprotected and exposed to the elements.  I found beauty in the natural light that illuminated the space and romanticized about the home, the office, or warehouse being full of life and production.  I was gripped by the despair of things people left behind, things that were made to serve a purpose now vandalized and not in working order.  This was the very beginning of my obsession with the concept of restoration.