SHOOT THE RECESSION
Submitted by Tommer on March 13, 2009
Last week, Slate launched “Shoot the Recession,” a project in which readers were asked what the economic crisis looked like to them. The responses are available on the photo-sharing site Flickr. As of this writing, the Flickr pool is home to more than 160 pictures.
The photos represent a range of approaches to documenting the recession. Some readers turned their cameras on the downturn’s retail victims, like this Linens ‘n Things in South Portland, Maine, or this Woolworths in Brighton, England. Others focused on the housing crisis—on a cluster of unsold homes in Washington, D.C.; one up for auction in Lyndhurst, Ohio; or an unfinished one in Merced, Calif. Others captured the plight of Detroit—the city and its auto industry.