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Abandoned Places

A shuttered building, the remains of a mine, and a rooftop commandeered in wartime. Three works on what’s left when a place loses its original purpose.

A photograph from Ann Kammerer’s series on a shuttered Lansing building
Ann Kammerer, Lead Paint Ruins
Photography

Lead Paint Ruins

Ann Kammerer

Kammerer revisits photographs of a shuttered building in Lansing, Michigan, once home to a bank, a restaurant, offices, and apartments.

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Poetry

Once it took a

Paul Brookes

On a twelve-hour security shift at Grimethorpe, a guard walks through the remains of a coal industry and clocks the hours.

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Nonfiction

Overwatch

Grady VanWright

A former home becomes a military position. From the rooftop, a peacekeeper remembers what it meant to watch a city through a scope.

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