Deindustrialization and decline in photographs.

I love it when a plan falls apart. Two French photographers, Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, traveled Detroit and East Germany to document the devolution of industrialized cities and spaces. While it doesn't seem that people are present, Marchand and Meffre provide stirring images. Their website also exhibits forgotten theaters in the US. Overall, some fascinating stuff on their website.

Here's their artist statement:
Ruins are the visible symbols and landmarks of our societies
and their changes, small pieces of history in suspension.

The state of ruin is essentially a temporary situation that happens at
some point, the volatile result of change of era and the fall of empires.
This fragility, the time elapsed but even so running fast, lead us to watch them one very last time : being dismayed, or admire, making us wondering about the permanence of things.

Photography appeared to us as a modest way
to keep a little bit of this ephemeral state.