[Leica] Abandoned GE Factory

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

Sad to see the changing of the old industrial guard, but nicely caught 
all the same. Douglas


On 11/05/2018 08:16, Christopher Crawford wrote:
> Some of you will remember the photos I posted a few yrs ago of the General
> Electric factory complex in Fort Wayne that was shut down at the beginning
> of 2015. They were all shot from the street, because GE wouldn?t let anyone
> inside the fence to photograph.
>
> Last year, the city announced that they had found a developer to turn the
> sprawling 100 year old complex and its many buildings into apartments and
> retail spaces, with the development to be called Electric Works. Last 
> month,
> the developers invited a small group of photographers to go inside some of
> the buildings to photograph, and I was one of them!
>
> This was personally important to me, beyond simply wanting to photograph 
> the
> historic buildings for my documentary projects. My great-grandfather,
> Raymond Estes, and three of his sons all worked here decades ago. At one
> time, there were 25,000 workers in these buildings! When GE closed down the
> last of their operations in January, 2015 there were fewer than 100
> employees left. Most of the buildings had been abandoned twenty years
> earlier.
>
> I finally got my photos edited and posted on my website.
>
> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-results.php?category=110
>