American Industrial Posters and Prints

I grew up in a fairly rural area of North Carolina, and although I had traveled a good bit, I had never lived in an urban area until I attended graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. It was the early 1980's, and Pittsburgh was going through a tremendous transition away from its roots in the steel industry. I was fascinated by the scale of the architecture, especially the steel mills themselves, and I took a lot of photographs in the 9 years I lived there. I still feel deep emotion; it is perhaps a duality of melancholy and desire, when I look back at these very bleak photographs of that time.

I have since moved on to live in other places, a collection of both urban and rural venues, but I remain drawn and even energized by urban industrial scenes. I have started taking these old photographs and reworking them digitally, sometimes in the form of collages, and sometimes just by themselves, to do this series of urban industrial landscapes. They are all available through American Industrial in a range of sizes and finishes.