Recording the mundane and the ugly

I like how Louie Palu has made drab concrete boxes become soaring cathedrals of industry, outwardly presenting the power and energy achieved within. His work focuses on "The Golden Triangle...a geographic area located in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Historically, this region has contained some of the richest deposits of gold, silver, uranium, nickel, copper and zinc. A significant number of mines have closed." (via polareintertia)

A more emotional approach to the type of industrial buildings captured by the Becher's – Photographer's who I also like. They obsessively recorded fast disappearing industrial architecture in the Rhur in a consistent clinical manner, travelling around the region in a VW camper van. Less about telling stories, more about taking notes.