Margaret B-W was a photographer for LIFE magazine who often caught images of the downtrodden and working, Depression-era poor. I tried to capture something that might have been left behind once one of her poorer subjects had passed away.
I love to find and capture what is left in old abandoned houses and this one is a veritable treasure trove, full of mysteries. Amongst them is this scene upstairs, precisely as I found it: an impromptu clothesrack of a simple cord strung the length of a room, providing a hanger for women's clothing. All around is total chaos with peeling wallpaper, sagging ceilings, floors all throughout ankle-deep in household debris...yet this one attempt to preserve dignity by hanging up clothes to keep them clean and from joining the layers of garbage beneath spoke the most to me.
pp: shot NEF, converted to DNG, adjust exposure, crop, vibrance, desat, resize, NIK Silver, save for web
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