Seph Lawless is an American photographer who has documented urban decay and abandoned spaces in the United States.
Table of Contents
- 1 Early life
- 2 Photography
- 2.1 Themes
- 2.2 Autopsy of America: The Death of a Nation
- 2.3 Abandoned Malls of America: Crumbling Commerce Left Behind
- 2.4 Abandoned: Hauntingly Beautiful Deserted Theme Parks
- 2.5 Abandoned America: Dismantling The Dream
- 2.6 After the Final Curtain: The Fall of the American Movie Theater (Jonglez photo books)
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Early life
Lawless grew stirring in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. He has avowed that his daddy was a longtime worker at Ford Motor Company.
Photography
In 2012 and 2013, Lawless photographed single-handedly industrial infrastructure and new aspects of industrial decrease in the Rust Belt and elsewhere in the United States for his self-published 2014 book, Autopsy of America: The Journal Entries of Seph Lawless.
A second book, Black Friday: The Collapse of the American Shopping Mall, contains photos from 2013 and 2014 documenting isolated and boarded-up shopping malls. He photographed unaccompanied malls in Michigan and Ohio, including the forlorn Rolling Acres Mall in Akron, Ohio, built in 1975 and closed in 2008, and the Randall Park Mall in North Randall, Ohio, which was said to be the world’s largest shopping center at the time of its initiation in the 1970s, and which closed in 2009.
In March 2016, his photographs of Disney’s River Country, an without help section of Disney World, were published in various media outlets, and he claimed to have been banned from entering Disney World after photographing and sharing his images to the press. In March 2016 Lawless next took photos in Picher, Oklahoma, a toxic without help town which the Environmental Protection Agency had mandated to be evacuated in 2006.
In 2017, he photographed houses in the Beachwood neighborhood of High River, Alberta, Canada that had been isolated due to a floodplain relocation program after the 2013 Alberta floods. Lawless’s Huffington Post article and photographs were criticized in local media by the High River mayor, who said, “When you get things when this and you enter homes, you stage it when teddy bears, you concern lamp posts approaching and you do all of these things to attempt and sensationalize stuff, it hurts people.”
Themes
As an urban entrepreneur photographer, Lawless has recorded isolated shopping malls and further developments, with the declared intention of informing people of the sharpness and failures of capitalism, consumption, globalization, and national economic policies. In 2014 he stated that he wanted to feat Americans “what was happening to their country from the comfort of their suburban homes and smartphones.” A large proportion of the unaided malls, buildings, and amusement parks he photographs are in the Rust Belt, which has been heavily effected the various concern and economic changes in recent decades.
Last update 2021-08-06