CITY OF DUST

Organ, New Mexico isn’t really a ghost town these days, but I’m gonna make it look like one. Sorry, good people of Organ. I’ll explain in ...

Some ruins draw us in because of what’s left behind, even if we don’t know who was there or what they did. Other times, we may know a litt...

Back in late 2004, I wrote a post titled “Honky Tonk Hell” about an abandoned Christian mission located on the site of the lost town of H...

My favorite place to photograph in Albuquerque--by far--is the long-vacant Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Rail Yard. A couple years ago I ...

Before we leave Georgia, let’s take a quick look at the Augusta Confederate Monument, located in the grassy median of the 700 block of Broad...

In 2005, I wrote a piece about Magnolia Cemetery and some of the people buried there. One of the most interesting stories was that of Wyl...

In the last post, which featured the Genesta Hotel , I mentioned the importance of Union Station in the development of 8th (aka Jackson) Str...

Eighth (aka Jackson) Street was once one of the most bustling thoroughfares in Augusta, Georgia. Union Station, a large railroad depot bui...

Three posts ago I said that I had four more locations to document from last fall’s trip to the greater Augusta, GA area and then it woul...

In the over eight years that I’ve been doing City of Dust, rarely have I ever used the same photo in more than one post. The few times tha...

“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make ...

One of the buildings I really wanted to visit on this last trip to Augusta, Georgia was Lam Brothers Food Store at 1024-1026 D’Antignac St. ...