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Detroit Architecture

Richard Pendavingh

Detroit is known now as the biggest city on the 'rust belt' - cities where manufacturing recessions have devastated the local economy.

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Mar
19
2013
Chicago Richard Pendavingh 19.03.13

Some images from the start of a chilly spring in Chicago.

Mar
18
2013
Shedd Aquarium, Chicago Richard Pendavingh 18.03.13

Thankfully not an aquarium in a shed but just an aquarium named after a guy called Shedd.

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Mar
16
2013
Chicago’s St Patrick’s Day 2013 Richard Pendavingh 16.03.13

Apparently way back in the 1830s about 20 per cent of Chicago's population were Irish.

Mar
16
2013
Chicago by Night Richard Pendavingh 16.03.13

Some images of the city of Chicago after sundown.

Mar
14
2013
Boeing Everett Plant Richard Pendavingh 14.03.13

Some photos of the Boeing production plant in Everett WA.

Mar
13
2013
Rite Liquors Cocktail Lounge Richard Pendavingh 13.03.13

So Chicago has these dive bars that double as liquor stores during the day and they're a sort of throwback to an age where drinking was something you did to get drunk. . .

Mar
11
2013
Seattle II Richard Pendavingh 11.03.13

Some shots in the dark taken in Seattle back in March.

Mar
09
2013
Seattle Richard Pendavingh 09.03.13

Some images from a few rainy days in Seattle.

Mar
05
2013
Kodachrome Mythmaking Richard Pendavingh 05.03.13

More photos from the 1940s courtesy of the archives on Shorpy.com.

Mar
04
2013
Signs of the American Midwest Richard Pendavingh 04.03.13

Some classic, rather neglected, neon signage around Spokane, WA.

Mar
03
2013
Spokane, WA Richard Pendavingh 03.03.13

Some relatively recent photos from Spokane in Washington state.

Feb
26
2013
Teck Cominco Zinc Smelter Richard Pendavingh 26.02.13

Some photos from our guided tour of the Teck Smelter in Trail, BC.

Feb
20
2013
Red Mountain, BC Richard Pendavingh 20.02.13

Some photos I took from the top of Granite Mountain outside of Rossland in British Colombia.

Feb
16
2013
Large Hadron Collider Richard Pendavingh 16.02.13

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) In Geneva is going offline on Saturday for two years of maintenance and upgrades.

Feb
05
2013
Shanghai Morning Richard Pendavingh 05.02.13

After a frigid night in Shanghai we watched the city wake up.

Feb
04
2013
Shanghai Evening Richard Pendavingh 04.02.13

I'd like to say there was a sound artistic reason for documenting the one of the busiest shopping districts in the world while it was dark and empty.

Nov
13
2012
Eclipse 2012 Richard Pendavingh 13.11.12

If you were standing around outdoors near Cairns on November 14th last year then you might not have seen the sun.

Oct
11
2012
Sebastien Montaz-Rosset Richard Pendavingh 11.10.12

Few films provoke such a powerful, visceral reaction as this short by Sebastian Montaz-Rosset so I thought I should share my discomfort.

Sep
14
2012
Photographic Empathy Richard Pendavingh 14.09.12

Early colour photographs of Tsarist Russia by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii courtesy of the US Library of Congress.

Aug
22
2012
Tokyo by Day Richard Pendavingh 22.08.12

Another series of photos from my January trip to Japan.