Dystopian | Frank Myers

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development, condo tower

1989

Former Esso gasoline station soon to be the site of 27-floor condominium building.

Vienna Tavern summer-0976.jpg

Black and white scene of a deserted diner. Across the street is the entrance to a massive steel mill. The street is empty.

Wayside Lunch

A dystopian scene of an abandoned diner across the street from a steel mill entrance.

Black and White scene of a deserted street. In the forefront is a squat, brick building. In the distance is a grain elevator.

Sintaluta, Saskatchewan

A street scene in the small town of Sintaluta, Saskatchewan.

Relax

Several discarded reclining chairs sit outside a rundown apartment building. Perhaps a place for residents to relax on warm summer evenings.

Black and white scene of a former swimming pool, now filled with reeds and other plants. Over the pool is an arched walkway. Behind, there is an abandoned building, part of the former Pines Resort.

Pines Resort

Abandoned Borscht Belt resort in the Catskills Mountains north of New York City.

Colour photograph of a decaying storefront in New York City's Williamsburg area. A colourful American flag in one window contrasts with the aged storefront.

God Bless America

The Stars and Stripes proudly displayed in a decaying storefront in the Williamsburg neighbourhood of New York City.

Black and white photograph of a bronze statue, seen from the back, gesturing ambiguously toward the waterfront of Toronto. The CN Tower is central in the scene.

Ireland Park

A bronze statue in Ireland Park on the Toronto waterfront. The park commemorates the tens of thousands of Irish who fled famine in 1847.

Black and white image of an older house. A modern housing project is being built around it. It seems the owners of the older home have refused to sell.

Resistance.

An older home remains, as a modern subdivision is built around it in Burlington, Ontario.

A black and white image of a building beside a rural paved road. Above the door is a sign "Gun Shop."

Convenience Store.

A roadside gun shop in rural Vermont.

Black and white photograph shows a tall cell phone tower dwarfing a mature maple tree.

Towering over.

A new cell tower dwarfs a mature maple tree. The tree was subsequently cut down.

Black and white photograph of a two-tier cell block in Kingston Penitentiary. The scene is darkly lit, suggesting nighttime.

Cell Block G

A cell block in Kingston Penitentiary.

Black and white image of an abandoned motel. The wall is white and covered with graffiti.

Gloria's Motel

A heavily vandalized abandoned motel in Northern Ontario.

Colour photograph of homeless people bedding down outside a Boston church. Above the sleepers are banners reading: Merch, Justice, Beauty.

Bedding Down in Boston

Homeless people spending the night outside a church in Boston Mass.

fall colour, cutover forest

Fall Colours, Cutover

Bleak scene of a cutover forest. The few remaining trees and ground vegetation make a valiant attempt to show some fall colour.

FRANK MYERS

Photography

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