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Photo Series: Winter’s End

April 29, 2013 By Laura Dal Farra Leave a Comment

 

Where the two motor cities almost meet.  Windsor, Ontario, Canada on one side of the Detroit River and Detroit, Michigan, USA on the other. As a kid growing  up in Windsor, I was told that aside from the strong current, the pollution in the Detroit River would kill me.  This was further punctuated by stories of pollution in Windsor’s west side. I would hear tales of locals having to rewash the laundry they hung to dry as pollution, filtering in from Detroit’s Zug Island, would contaminate their lives. I was thankful I grew up in the south central part of the city despite living outside of an industrial park.  Rolling around in discarded factory plastic wrap and thinking the aqua blue water streaming into the ditch at the end of my street was magickal, seemed a lot better than breathing in whatever it was the power structure in Detroit chose, and continues to choose, to ignore.

The photos in this series were taken during the late winter at sunset on Windsor’s west side.  I wanted to capture the area as I saw it that day. I aimed to reflect the beauty I found in an industrial wasteland without ignoring its reality.

 

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Zug Island in the distance, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, 2012
Riverside-Drive-Windsor
Windsor, Ontario, Canada, 2013
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Windsor, Ontario, Canada, 2013
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Windsor, Ontario, Canada & Detroit, Michigan, USA, 2013
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Windsor, Ontario, Canada & Detroit, Michigan, USA, 2013

 

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About Laura Dal Farra

After a six month adventure training Muay Thai in Thailand in 2007, Laura Dal Farra returned to her native Canada, sold most of what she owned, and boarded a plane set for Bangkok alone. She spent the next 3.5 years training in traditional Muay Thai gyms, pushing her limits, and embracing the unknown. Realizing little was being written on the subject, she began to blog about it. Laura Dal Farra is the founder of Milk.Blitz.Street.Bomb.

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