I’d been wanting to shoot at the abandoned Packard Plant in Detroit, Michigan for quite some time.  Finally, it came together.

When we got on location, one thing became very clear: it was deserted.  Michael Bay was in town shooting some footage for one of the Transformers movies and the film equipment was parked on the north side of the plant.  We shot on the south side.  And we were, save for one paparazzi, the only people there.  What’s more, it didn’t especially look like anyone else had been their either.  Sure, there was a little garbage here and there–there was also a large motorboat in one of the rooms–but there was no drug paraphernalia, no homeless camps (no homeless people) and no sign of rats.  It’s like life was absent from the plant. 

We made the most of our time there, shooting in every room and building we could find.  It was weird; we’d enter an office section of the plant and see file cabinets with thousands of documents still in them.  It was impressive.  The plant had been closed for decades and a lot of the chairs and desks were still in the position they were when the plant closed.

This was my favorite photo from the shoot, an almost candid shot of Kristina and Jenny talking.