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Today I come with a more somber article for I shall tell the sad tale of a beautiful building and the death of an industry in Massillon.
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After a dip into the pool with Franco Fontana a few weeks ago, this week’s installment of Influence or Coincidence dives into the cold and foggy German winter. Read on to find out more about photography’s star couple Bernd and Hilla Becher and of course, who on Lomography got closest to their style.
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Ancoats is undergoing rapid changes at the moment. Nevertheless, it is still the best place to see the industrial heritage of the world's fist industrialised city.
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My hometown, Wigan, has had some bad press in its time. Most famously in 'The Road to Wigan Pier' by George Orwell. In this book, Orwell set out to highlight the immense poverty of industrial mill-towns across working-class England and he reserved his last stop and the title of his book for the worst: Wigan. I hope to show that it is no longer so.
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In the past the coke plant Zollverein was one of the modern coke plants, today the place invites you to marvel and to stay. The coke plant was built in 1957 in connection to the Coal Mine Zollverein.
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Welcome to Münster, which is known as the city of bikes. I went to the harbour with a friend and was thrilled! There were plenty of interesting characters and exhilarating scenes for you to enjoy with your Lomographic cameras.
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I recently had the perfect day in an exciting place in Vienna. The "Alberner Hafen", situated in the outskirts of Vienna, was the ideal location for my first experiences with the Diana F+. Interested in what sites I saw with my little plastic friend? Read on!
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Every morning from my bedroom window I can see high tower – chimney of sugar house. It was founded in 1931 and was the first industrial object in the region. In Europe Sugar from sugar beetroots people started to get in nineteenth century.
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This unintended monument to a neighborhood's origins towers 100 feet over a vast lot of unchecked weeds and mysterious floors...
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Marinha Grande is also known as the glass capital (90% of the national glass production was made here). Now most of the Factories are closed, but we still produce artwork and decorative glass worldwide.
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I now wish I’d have snapped more and more! Bu my walking around with my eyes facing skyward, I was surprised to notice that many other people imitated my direction of sight and also began to appreciate whats around and above them. A whole new world, a world i just want to share!
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The shambles is a famous 14th Century cobbled street in York. Based in the heart of the city this is one not to be missed.
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If you come to visit Munich and if you have an open and curious mind about science & technology, you must absolutely plan a visit to the "Deutsches Museum", one of the greatest museum of this kind in Germany
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An Industrial Vanishing Act... Even if at first you feel physically or emotionally distanced from something or someplace, isn't it strange how such a void seems to intensify your own sense of attachment?
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Refinaria de Leça da Palmeira is a refinery near Oporto.
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The ex Fiat/Teksid steel plate production plants, situated in the northern part of Turin, were definitely closed in 1992 and then partially destroyed. Still standing though are the "red giants", the huge steel columns which were once the structure of the factory.