“Hometown is a collection of images that centers around the effects that the current recession has had on the place i call home. Oshawa Ontario in rural Canada in particular, has been hit very hard by these changes, with General Motors factory closures and home evictions and rising drug trafficking. So far, close to 250,000 people have lost their jobs, and as the downtown sector closes down, stores and shops become a haven for drug dealers and gangs turning a once peaceful downtown into violent ground. But this essay is not as much about the recession as it is about people and the loss and isolation endured through these changes. The emptiness and the separation that has followed and still continues…”
in Burn Magazine
Mike Berube’s webpage
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