This Last Fall was shot over a period of twenty days beginning on October 12th, 2022.
While shooting a three block-long road, Roxford, mostly bombed out and abandoned with four ocupied homes left, i was on my ladder shooting a large apartment building that was taken over by vines and trees, suddenly 🔊 i heard this ghoul adressing me. It was Shirelle’s home-made ghoul on Roxford Road in East Cleveland. Her entire property features her creations including a very large wolf.
The peak fall color normally occurs at Halloween in this town, although every day is Halloween in the gothic, forest-covered city, that forgot about trimming, cutting and maintaining its flora, but not Halloween.
“Creatures in the field.” That’s a good one. After all, this is East Cleveland. “Creatures in the field?” Yeah, and I’m one of ‘um, so i can give ya the insider’s view, i’ve been shooting here since 1978, living it, more than visiting it, and, on those grounds, i welcome your eyes and 🔊 ears.
This is the last fall i will shoot this city. After a liver resection in February, 2022, followed by chemo, which ended just as the fall began. I really wanted to get back home to New York, but, realized this would be the last fall in this town, and out popped this book of ghetto splender in East Cleveland, one of the most distressed cities in America.
RemarksI know a lot about where you're coming from, but, I find you pretentious.Neighborhood Ghoul, Roxbury RoadThe Author Lies in Rest, Cleveland Hardware Company, East 79th StreetTree, Freindship Baptist Church, East 55th StreetOriginally built as a Jewish synagogue, the neighborhood was, more or less, integrated, back then but, became largely black, particularly after World War II. The remaining synagogues are now Baptist churches along E. 55th St.Window, East Cleveland Congregational Church, Page AvenueHouse, Hower AvenueHome & House, East 83rd Pl.Apartment House, Charles StreetApetment Houses, St Charles AvenueApartments,Wyeth AvenueHouse, East 73rd StreetHouse, East 73rd StreetWindows,House, East 73rd StreetHouse, East 133rd StreetHouse, Allendale AvenueHouse, Rosemont StreetHouse, East 82nd StreetHouse, ElderwoodAvenueHouse, Harris AvenueHome, Elm AvenueTree, Freindship Baptist Church, East 55th StreetTree, Freindship Baptist Church, East 55th StreetTree, Freindship Baptist Church, East 55th StreetCatalpa Tree & Home, Aberdeen AvenueTiny HomeRetained Rail Embankment, Abandoned Factories & TrainRetained Rail Embankment, Abandoned Factories & TrainRetained Rail Embankment, Abandoned Factories & TrainRetained Rail Embankment, Abandoned Factories & TrainRetained Rail Embankment, Abandoned Factories & TrainRetined Rail Embankment, Abandoned Factories & TrainRetined Rail Embankment, Abandoned Factories & TrainRetined Rail Embankment, Abandoned Factories & TrainRetained Rail Embankment, Abandoned Factories & TrainRetained Rail Embankment, Abandoned Factories & TrainRetained Rail Embankment, Abandoned Factories & TrainRetained Rail Embankment, Abandoned Factories & TrainRetained Rail Embankment, Abandoned Factories & TrainTrain Passing by Church, Holton Avenue, Forgotten Trianglest. Goerge Church Window,Apartment House, Elderwood AvenueWindow, Roxbury RoadApartment House, Roxbury RoadCleveland Harware plant, East 79thCleveland Cooperative Stove factory & DowntownCleveland Cooperative Stove FactoryCleveland Cooperative Stove FactoryRetained Rail Embankment, Abandoned Factories & TrainRowhouse, Northfield AvenueMack Truck,Rowhouse, Northfield AvenueRowhouse, Northfield AvenueRowhouse, Parkwood DriveRowhouse, Bayliss AvenueDoor & Lenette, Hodges School, East 74th StreetDoor, Apartment Rowhouse, Roxbury StreetApartment Rowhouse, Roxbury StreetGhoul, Home, Roxbury RoadHome-Made Jesus, Superior AvenueChisolm Gravesite, Lakeview CemeteryApartment House, Holyoke AvenueHouse, Clonial CourtHouse, Hower AvenueHouse, Arthur AvenueHouse, East 82nd StreetHouse, Charles RoadRowhouse, Elberon AvenueHouse, Taylor RoadApartment House, Charles StreetApartment House, Charles StreetWarner & Swasey Observatory, Taylor RoadHough Bakery, Lakeview AvenueMooney Iron WorksDormer,Home, Coit AvenueJapanese Maple, Lakeview CemteryLunette Window, Hodges School, East 74th Street
