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W.E.E.D. - the Packard Plant, Detroit

Took me awhile to finish this roll. Kodak Hawkeye super color 400, the grainiest colour film I've ever used. Test roll (on a dull grey day).

 

Packard was an American luxury automobile marque built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, and later by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation of South Bend, Indiana. The first Packard automobiles were produced in 1899, and the last in 1958. Today, that same plant is a black eye on a beaten city that is $16 billion in debt and in the throes of the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. The Packard plant, once a testament to American industrial might, now sits slowly decaying on Concord Street near I-94. It functions as a sanctuary for graffiti artists, urban explorers, auto scrappers, criminals and scavengers.

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Uploaded on February 28, 2014
Taken on October 5, 2013