100 Abandoned Houses: Decline of Detroit
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Photographer Kevin Bauman started the 100 Abandoned Houses project roughly a decade ago. He began photographing abandonment in Detroit in the mid-90s. He said he always found it to be amazing, depressing and perplexing that a once-great city could find itself in such great distress, all the while surrounded by such affluence.