I tried to picture my friend as a ghost here in these photographs.
In Oakland there is a huge beautiful building that seems to be an abandoned Chevrolet Factory.
Here are a few of my favorites.
Decay in Oakland
Tag: photojournalism
Mexican War Streets
Spring Valley Pool
When I was 2 years old I had my first birthday party at Spring Valley Community Pool.
Back in 1994, kids were dropped off at the pool with their friends on the weekends or after school in the summer. We didn’t have phones, we didn’t have computers, we had friends and the outdoors. This pool is where I learned to swim in the deep end, where I learned how to dive off the tall diving board without getting scared. This picture is of the playground where I learned how to swing, balance myself on the rail, and how to use the monkey bars.
Now, with chipping paint and overgrown with high weeds, this playground is far from being anyone’s ‘firsts’ of anything.
Foggy Water
I volunteered in the 2013 Ovarian Cancer Walk and photographed some of the events while I was there.
While everything was going on in the park for the benefit, I saw tiny bench with the most beautiful small lake and I had to take a picture of it.
“I love how to captured the fog over the water!”
-Brandon Savka
No matter how busy everything was over at the event, I loved to take a minute and photograph the foggy lake and think to myself.
About Myself
My name is Kiersten Mae Lewis and I am a senior photojournalism major at Point Park University. I live in Shadyside Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and I love it.
I carry my camera everywhere, taking photos of everything I see that is interesting.
What I love photographing the most is urban decay. Urban decay is something that I love to try to make people see in a beautiful way. Most people see an abandoned building and think it should be bulldozed and made into amazing city apartments.
I see something that could be made beautiful, I take the pictures in different angles, in different light, and suddenly everyone sees my point of view.
KML Photography 