By: Erich Roden
Detroit. These days, all you have to do is utter the name and your head will fill with all of the preconceived notions you have about socioeconomic demise; they’re all found in Detroit. What’s found is a City that may have tipped over the point of comeback, of prosperity; A City with abandoned and vacant buildings the sizes of small Cities themselves: the Packard Plant, train stations, blocks of boarded-up taxpayers and once happy private dwellings...
There is no shortage of sensationalist and sociology academic-type photographers who are willing to document the demise of one of America’s former gateways to the American Dream. Their muse is obvious, blight. It’s the usual fare when photos of Detroit are used in major media outlets and markets. What we don’t often see in this media are those who are left to defend it, Detroit’s domestic soldiers; Detroit’s firefighters.
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