For some time now I’ve been thinking about a certain topic: urban decay.
Urban decay (also known as urban rot, urban death or urban blight) is the sociological process by which a previously functioning city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude. There is no single process that leads to urban decay.
Looking around the town where I live there are some signs of urban decay. Infrastructure falling into disrepair mostly. Roads are disintegrating as no maintenance is done on them.
Another problem is refuse being dumped on corners. This morning I was on my way to work and took this photo.
To the left you can see a few refuse bags lying on the side of the road. To the right of the image underneath the trees there was about ten or twelve refuse bags full of various sort of garbage.
It seems as a part of a town, city or country starts to collapse the people in the area follows suit. The mindset around keeping your city / town clean disappears. The morality seems to disappear.
This image is in one of the more “seedy” areas of town. I’ve been working here for about 10 years and I’ve seen some weird things here. People on drugs. Fist fights. Petty crime. ATM scammers. Sex workers, pushers, users. Guys on CAT, girls on meth. Police raids and mob justice. People getting killed and people dying from drug overdoses.
If nothing else, this place is interesting, at least from the perspective of a photographer and a storyteller.
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