bike, photo by vanessamiller.

About a month ago Vanessa was interviewed by Michigan Radio’s Jennifer Guerra about her Ruins of Detroit urban explorations project. Vanessa says:

The Detroit ruins project has been in progress in some form or another for six years. During that time we have seen Detroit grow and change. It started in High school when we treated the city’s abandoned buildings as playgrounds. We were a group of photographers that spent every day shooting. In college, some people move out of state, some just moved on, but we stayed, we kept coming back to the same places and began documenting their changes over time. We saw our favorite buildings burn to the ground and found new ones along the way. Each building has its own mysteries, that we tried to solve and its own beauty.

Check out more photos from Vanessa and others of the Detroit that just isn’t there anymore in her photostream and in the Vanished Detroit group on Flickr.