Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre photo project about Detroit

The ruins of Detroit

At the beginning of the 20th Century, the city of Detroit
developed rapidly thanks to the automobile industry and until
the 50's, its population rose to almost 2 million people.
At this time, it was the 4th most important city in the United States.

During the 60's, disindustrialization and violent riots caused a large
migration of the middle-class people outside the metropolis area.
Then until the end of the 90's, "Motor City" lost more than half of its population.

Today, despite a beginning of revitalization, a lot of the luxuous hotels, theaters, apartments, stores and office buildings built in the prosperous era remain vacant.


Pictures here


They've also taken sets of industrial factories in East Germany and abandoned theaters in America..