Administration

Rubber dock boots still sits under the desk in the dock office, near keys to rusted locks and files of fired employees.

This gives you a sense for what it looks like to stand on the roof of the main production building at sunset.

The old men’s ward is an example of what the hospital resembled before part of the complex was modernized. Small rooms, light switches outside the door, small observation windows set into heavy wood. If you ask me, though, the tile work across the floors is the most spectacular.

The end of the new elevator. Line of bird droppings follow the fire sprinkler pipes and wires in the room.

My first view of the tunnel was in the dead of winter. In spite of being in the middle of the forest, it was totally silent. Mamiya GA645 / Kodak Pro 400

When boiling beet juice accidentally spills from the gas-fired tanks two feet away, you better be wearing some of these, or bye-bye legs.

The roof compromised, rain water rolls down the main stairway.

A detailed look at the side of one of the thousands of transformer boxes in the war city.

When I moved from the roof back into the upper floors of the distillery, the plants growing out of the masonry caught my eye. It’s 60 feet up, but looks like it could be an old wall.