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First Aid
For various reasons, mostly related to inertia, I haven’t been out shooting many new images lately. Fortunately (depending on how you look at it), I have quite a few images left over from a big documentary project I did in 2018-2019, so for the next few days, I’ll be posting some of the images that didn’t make the cut for the show.
In 2019, the 1950s-era Lubbock Municipal Auditorium and Coliseum were demolished; I was able to have full access to the facilities during the last year they were operational. It was a wonderful opportunity to document the place that held a lot of my childhood memories.
One thing I didn’t have a memory of – fortunately – was the first aid room. What I like about this image – but what I barely noticed when I made it – is the way the paint is worn away from the right-hand side of the passageway, showing decades of foot-falls in exactly the same spots.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.12.2018
Defeat’s Refrigerator
An abandoned-building mystery: who waters the plants?
An another abandoned-building mystery: what’s the deal with the refrigerator?
an abandoned school
Terry County, Texas
photographed 11.8.2020
Defeat’s Corridor
But even when the school has moved away there are random things left behind, for reasons that shall be forever unknown.
an abandoned school
Terry County, Texas
photographed 11.8.2020
Defeat’s Façade
A lot of small, rural schools out here end up consolidating with nearby districts just to have enough students to make it worth the effort. That means the rural roads of the high plains are dotted with the left-behind buildings. It feels like defeat.
an abandoned school
Terry County, Texas
photographed 11.8.2020
Different borders
This little building has ended up being hemmed in by a fallen, dead tree and an upright not-dead one.
Terry County, Texas
photographed 11.8.2020
One Day | One Image 