An ongoing and ever-evolving project, Vanishing Point aims to examine how time and space impact upon a single focal point within a larger landscape while using our vanishing urban spaces as subject matter. The viewer’s perspective is challenged through the use of multiple photo layers and viewpoints within the same scene.
Set inside an ancient drugstore in the main square of Lviv, Ukraine, is a museum devoted to the apothecary arts. Established in 1735 by Wilhelm Natorp, a military pharmacist, the drugstore remains in operation in the front room, while the museum takes up 16 rooms on 3 floors in the rest of the building on the corner of Drukarska and Stavropihiyska, and has over 3000 rare articles on exhibit.
The Ambassaodr Hotel in Gary, Indiana was built in 1928 by architect William Stern. Not much is known about this building’s history except that it began as an upscale hotel/apartment and later was reused as an elder home.
City Methodist Church in Gary, Indiana, was built in 1925 by the design firm of Lowe & Bollenbacker. Today it is but a ruin, with and open roof and decaying auditorium.
Deep in the farmlands of Bowmanville lies a group of boarded up buildings, bordered on one side by a townhome development and the other by pristine fields and forests. It is the only intact camp for German prisoners of war that is known of still left in Canada, and perhaps the world.
Packard was an American luxury automobile built originally by the Packard Motor Company of Detroit, MI. Their 3.5 million square foot Packard plant in Detroit covered over 35 acres and has stood derelict since the last car rolled off the assembly line in 1956.