[quote As someone who also photographs urban landscapes, albeit occasionally, I enjoyed this work. In Tucson, and perhaps most of the Southwest, the traditional downtown scene has long ceded the shopping market to strip malls, big box stores, and malls. Thus we have a kind of shopping store urban blight that in 1970 prompted Life Magazine to declared one of our major avenues, Speedway Blvd., the ugliest street in America. Things have changed but not by much.
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Hello Omer,
Unfortunately, I have developed a sick fascination for places like Speedway Blvd. I've seen similar "ugliness" repeated in so many places in the east and, yes, particularly in the west. My hope is that in 50 - 100 years people look at photographs of retail development and wonder how anyone could have built something like that.
I really enjoyed your black and white landscape photos. They have an evocative sense of loss or displacement to them. I hope you keep photographing the urban landscape.
Drew