These two french photographers explore the decay of a great American city; Detroit. Their images show the marks left behind by the people who once filled these rooms.
 
In their own words:
“Ruins are the visible symbols and landmarks of our societies and their changes, small pieces of history in suspension. The state of ruin is essentially a temporary situation that happens at some point, the volatile result of change of era and the fall of empires. This fragility, the time elapsed but even so running fast, lead us to watch them one very last time : being dismayed, or admired, making us wonder about the permanence of things.
Photography appeared to us as a modest way to keep a little bit of this ephemeral state.”
 

Dentist Cabinet, Broderick Tower
 

The ballroom of the 15-floor art-deco Lee Plaza Hotel, an apartment building with hotel services built in 1929 and derelict since the early 1990s
 

Light Court, Farwell Building
 
FROM: The Observer, Sunday 2 January 2011

Anna Skladmann, a German photographer, lives and works between New York and Moscow. She has been working on this book since she was young, which helped her feel more comfortable with her subjects.

“They live in a secluded world.” She says, “Their parents are attempting to make up for the Soviet times — they only want the best for their children.”

Check out her book “Little Adults” on bookstore shelves this past July.

FROM: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,767205,00.html