pittsburgh area steel mills

The Pittsburgh area steel mill photographs in this gallery are from a personal project I began in 1981. In wanting to get back to my roots I started to photograph the steel mill towns around Pittsburgh, not suspecting that soon the era of steel was about to come to an end. When the mills shut down I not only documented them, but also the ripple effect of other businesses closing, leading to food banks and people losing their homes. In 1988 I went to Black Star, a photographer's agency in New York City, and was advised by Annie Stewart, a photo editor there at the time, how to document my photographs and a strategy for releasing them. They also kept about 50 black and white photographs and about 50 color slides for their files. I had two exhibits of the Pittsburgh steel mill work at the Bost building in Homestead and California University of Pennsylvania.

All pictures are available for use or purchase through me. As art the photographs are made on 11x14 double weight paper, with archival processing and selenium toned. Editions are limited to 20. I can also do a museum quality mount and matt with acid free conservation and/or rag board if wanted. They are also available as art giclees produced on 11x14 or up to 2'x3' acid free art paper printed with archival ink. Giclees are limited to editions of 100. Color work is available as digital photographs, limited to 20, or art giclees, both in the same size range as black and white.

The work in the gallery is not the complete body of work I did. The images here are what I thought would work for wall art. Other images will be added in this gallery in both black and white and color. There is a lot of work not on this site, if you are researching images and you don't see what you are looking for please contact me through my contact page and ask if I have it in my files. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

100 Total Pictures