This "POLICE - caution" sign was about a half block away from a elementary school. I could imagine the students walking by this every day... and sadly there are three abandoned, boarded-up homes within one block of this school.
All of these photographs were taken within a ten minute driving range of my house, and I actually passed up far more houses that were obviously abandoned that I haven't taken photos of yet.
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The last house here is the most depressing of the lot. It could have been such a cool house, and probably was at one point in time. Today, it's a corner lot on a somewhat busy street. Fire damage. Boarded up windows. The door is also open wide...
2 comments:
Nice work, Z. This is a great project...documenting the parts of Omaha that most people don't have to deal with and therefore don't care about.
These are the same things I love to photograph. It reminds me of how life is so fleeting. I love to think about who lived there and what they were like. It makes me wonder about my own ancestors. And it makes me sad for the homes, buildings and land just sitting there useless and forgotten. The thing I see missing is probably interiors. This is something I struggle with as well I'm not sure I want to go into these places a)b/c it's illegal and b) I don't really want to know what I'll find most of the time.
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