Towers and Devices of an Alien Race

PrizeHonorable Mention in Exterior Architecture Photography / Industrial Exterior
LocationSouthport, United States
StudioLawrence Russ

There is a small industrial zone in Bridgeport, Connecticut, little more than a half-mile square. The site is dominated by the structures of O&G Industries’ asphalt and concrete plants and the adjacent Wheelbrator Bridgeport waste-to-energy facility. On the site, these facilities tend to merge visually. Seeing them freshly, apart from names, functions, or cliches about one Age versus another, the objects look just as much like futuristic constructions as human artifacts of past present -- with their own kind of mystery, power, and beauty - yet still somehow alien to the planet.