Sykes Datatronics was a successful computer manufacturer in the 1980′s but ultimately fell due to mismanagement and competition with companies like IBM who muscled them out of the personal computer business. This resulted in them abandoning their location in Rochester, NY in 1990. Since then the building has been unoccupied and has suffered damage from a number of fires over the years. [...]
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Finally! With Joe’s help we got a city walk to happen and I got to get back to the things that really interest me. It’s been a while so I didn’t do as much as I would like but I will be trying to focus more on inanimate objects now to keep people-photos from taking over. [...]
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During the first week of October I did some shooting with both Lindsey and Liz on a number of occasions. We did a few shoots in the studio and both of them became obsessed with the fan for the windblown hair look. The last shoot was a bigger affair that the two of them conjured up and worked on with Olivia, a makeup artist they knew. They asked me to shoot it and the rest is history. That shoot was in the abandoned Rochester subway and we worked with natural light only. [...]
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