Urban Decay

  My concept for this urban decay project was to capture pictures of local places that have been vandalized,run down, or are just falling apart. I went to many different places around downtown akron to capture pictures of buildings that people see every day but don't realize what's happening to them. For example; many of the pictures I've taken have graffiti on them, many people may pass this graffiti  and think, "oh more vandalism," but don't take time to realize there's messages within. My goal was allow people to see the deeper meaning. Also, I wanted to show how rundown areas so close to us are in hopes that people would reach out or at least get an emotional connection with the photos. I've used blurs to put main focus on some of the buildings and used different focus points.