abandoned places Archives - Shadows and Light

Meridian Mississippi: An Abandoned Places Experience

In this video, join fine art photographer Keith Dotson as he walks and drives around the city of Meridian, Mississippi to make photographs of abandoned buildings, especially focused on the historic but condemned E.F. Young Jr. Hotel

Abandoned Places Alabama Architecture Photography Behind the Scenes New Work Photography Video

Newbern, Alabama: Walking in the Footsteps of William Christenberry

Walk with fine art photographer Keith Dotson as he photographs ramshackle buildings in William Christenberry's footsteps in Newbern, Alabama

Podcast

Ambient Audio: Sounds from a Backroads Valley in Rural Tennessee (From the Podcast)

This episode of the Fine Art Photography Podcast is all about the sounds of being in the fieldWhat follows are ambient sounds from my recent backroads travels to photograph old barns and abandoned farmhouses. The sky was misty and wet. The air was still. I hope you enjoy this auditory experience.

Books News The Wheeling Portfolio

Keith Dotson announces a new book, ‘The Wheeling Portfolio’

Based on a visit to South Wheeling, West Virginia in 2021, fine art photographer Keith Dotson offers a set of black and white photographs of the abandoned and historic architecture he found there. Dotson pairs the photographs with an extensively researched history of the city and many of the old buildings he shot in Wheeling.

Abandoned Places Architecture Photography Behind the Scenes New Work Photography Video

Abandoned M.E. Trew General Merchandise Store: Photographs, Video, and History

Fine art photographer Keith Dotson tells the story of an old country store found along a backroad in the East Tennessee mountains

Abandoned Places Route 66 Texas Travel

The Old Texas Longhorn Motel on Route 66 in Glenrio is Being Demolished

The derelict abandoned Texas Longhorn Motel has been put behind a chain-link fence and demolition has begun. Watch my video visit to the motel made earlier in 2022.

Abandoned Places Architecture Photography Photography

This is Why I Photograph Abandoned Buildings

I view the photography of abandoned buildings as a form of architectural preservation -- a memory of at-risk locations that are endangered from the threat of progress, being condemned, or collapse. Here's one that I missed.

Abandoned Places Photography Video

Abandoned Enterprise Cotton Mill in Coleridge, North Carolina

Join fine art photographer Keith Dotson on location at an abandoned cotton mill in the mountains of North Carolina

Abandoned Places Architecture Photography History Photography The Wheeling Portfolio Video

History of the Stubenrauch Grocery Located at 3521 Jacob Street in Wheeling, West Virginia

Abandoned Places Architecture Photography News Photography

My Shawneetown Bank Video Featured by Illinois Radio Station

Thank you to Illinois radio station 100.9 The Eagle for featuring my YouTube video about the old Shawneetown Bank. I had a lot of fun visiting the oldest bank building in the state of Illinois and researching its history.