Dead Light

At the extreme eastern end of the plant is a bank of modern concrete silos. Kodak Portra 160/Mamiya 6.

One of the only extant assembly line tracks in the body painting department. No photographer leaves Fisher 21 without capturing some version of this spot; hope you like mine.

I wish I had the equipment then that I have now… I look back at these 10-year-old pictures and can’t ignore all the grain.

Camera: Voigtlander Bessa Film: Acros 100

The crane on Dock 2, as seen from Dock 4 right after sunset. Notice the old light tower is warped.

Taken while standing on the torn outline of a scrapped altar. With my back to the faded outlines of men, books and the Holy Grail, the room seems much lighter.

San Luis may not be a ghost town, but it’s aspiring by all indications. Luckily, it’s close enough to Cuba, NM to hang onto life, unlike the other ghost towns down the road.

“Paint the fence,” they said, but I don’t feel like it… who cares, anyway.

This building had its own kitchen, suggesting that it may have been one of the hospitals units within Norwich, such as the tuberculosis hospital.