Endangered Machinery: A look back
While my current enthusiams for industrial photography is no older than some two years, there has been a short "first wave" in the early and mid 1990ies. Here, some photos from that time, taken on Ilford bw- and various color films with a Nikon and a Mamiya MX-1000 SLR. Note that the scans are several years old and that the digital processing isn't exactly fresh either, so re-scanning might considerably increase the quality of some results, but it's a look back, so let's keep them in their original digital version.
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EXHIBIT I: Forge, Hoesch Nahmertal, Hagen-Hohenlimburg, Germany, ca. 1992
One of my very first industrial shots and the first one I liked. Site last checked last summer: minus the debris, nothing seemed to have been touched throughout all the time.
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EXHIBIT II: Thomas steel mill, Hoesch integrated steel mill UNION, Dortmund, Germany, ca. 1995
The only steel mill of this particular kind in my collection. Torn down. The once full grown UNION works are almost forgotten and information on the interweb and in books are scarce. Today, this site holds a ThyssenKrupp Schulte Stahlhandel installation.
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EXHIBIT III: Heat exchanger, power plant, Hoesch integrated steel mill UNION, Dortmund, Germany, ca. 1995
Simple, but effective. One of my all time favorites. The foundations of the power plants have never been removed as the plant's site might remain unused for an indefinite space of time.
