The Sears store in my local mall has been torn down. It’s been vacant for four years.

In the last few weeks the store was open I went up there almost every day to photograph the way a former retail giant looked as it died. At first I was worried that employees might challenge me and/or ask me to leave. But as it turns out, employees who only have that job for another paycheck or two don’t really care all that much.

And so, here are a couple of versions about what the death of Sears looked like.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.26.2018 and 1.3.2019