This decaying farmhouse on Maryland’s Eastern Shore sits mysteriously abandoned in the middle of a field, in late autumn before the snows fall. Abandoned houses are scattered all over our country and invite many questions about how they came to be abandoned and what ever became of the families who lived there? Symbols of our own impermanent status here on earth, they seem to represent all of us and stand as reminders that we’re only here for a short time and then we move on, leaving behind the things we thought were so important. This photograph is the cover image of my book on abandoned architecture entitled RUIN, Photographs of a Vanishing America, published by Down East Books.
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