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demolition by vandalism

march 2023 · Canada

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A boarded-up two-storey brick house sits behind snow and bare shrubs, with a blue locked utility post in the yard. Every window is covered in plywood, setting up the abandonment. — 01 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

01 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

The back of the house under snow: a concrete porch with metal railings leads to an open doorway beside plywood-covered windows. The one open door is the way in. — 02 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

02 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

A gutted kitchen with torn-down cabinets, rolled carpet and insulation heaped on the floor, and paint peeling off the ceiling. Two dark doorways lead deeper into the house. — 03 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

03 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

A living room whose ceiling has caved in, with mouldy insulation sagging over vertical blinds and a boarded window. Plaster and a torn-out floor vent lie across the wood floor. — 04 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

04 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

Looking through a kitchen where a wall has been smashed open to the studs, exposing a blue bathroom and toilet beyond. Snow has blown in across the floor through an open patio door. — 05 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

05 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

Pink insulation and ceiling boards hang down over a landing beside a glass-panelled door and an empty closet. The collapse shows how far the damage has gone. — 06 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

06 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

A wooden staircase with a curved handrail climbs past peeling walls and hanging foil vapour barrier, with snow drifted onto the upper steps. It shows the weather getting inside. — 07 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

07 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

A narrow hallway of curling paint leads to a staircase buried in insulation and ceiling debris, under a hole torn through the ceiling. The corridor frames the wreckage like a tunnel. — 08 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

08 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

A bedroom with a built-in wooden wardrobe hanging open, its doors torn off and scattered on the floor with a trash bag and debris. The rest of the room is oddly intact. — 09 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

09 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

A kitchen with oak cabinets flung open and an old electric stove, its burners and drip pans piled on top. A broken cabinet unit leans beside it. — 10 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

10 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

An empty bedroom with bare hardwood floor and pale green walls; the window glass is smashed and boarded from outside with plywood. The quiet emptiness contrasts with the wreckage elsewhere in the house. — 11 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

11 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

A small room where blue and white paint peels off the walls and ceiling in curling sheets around a stained roller blind. Mould spreads under the window and holes are punched through the side wall. — 12 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

12 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

A lavender-tiled bathroom torn apart: the toilet tank is knocked askew, the vanity is smashed and a hole through the wall opens onto the dusk outside. Debris and insulation cover the floor. — 13 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

13 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

The attached garage with its door panels fallen in, a brick column against cinder-block walls and clothes, cans and a board bag strewn across the concrete. A railing guards the stairwell down to the basement. — 14 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

14 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

Wooden garage shelving under a flashlight, holding a rubber coat, spray cans and leftover tools against bare studs. A broken window above shows only plywood and branches outside. — 15 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

15 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

The back wall of the garage: an open-stud loft over black sheathing, a white side door and a red railing around the basement stairwell. A pole leans across the railing above a litter of clothes on the floor. — 16 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

16 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

A heap of clothes and blankets spilling out of torn plastic sheeting on the garage floor, beside a bike tyre and a string trimmer. Signs of people passing through after the house was left. — 17 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

17 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

Looking down the concrete-block stairwell from the garage into the basement, the steps choked with garbage bags, cans and debris. The basement door hangs open onto darkness. — 18 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

18 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

The basement from the bottom of the stairs, flooded with murky green water between mould-streaked, peeling walls. Insulation hangs from the ceiling in the room beyond the doorway. — 19 / 19shot on Galaxy S21 Ultra

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