Best Made Guide Bio: Jeremy Blakeslee, Urban Archaeology I’ve been exploring and documenting America’s industrial past for fifteen years, beginning with my first love, the former Bethlehem Steel Plant in Southeastern Pennsylvania. While I’ve traveled over several continents photographing architecture, machinery and the ruins of indigenous cultures, I feel a special calling to preserve the history and heroism of the mechanical beasts of burden that carried America into and through the industrial revolution. These often dangerous and less traveled spaces… the forgotten mines, steel mills, rail systems, and cities…. still have a story to tell us about ourselves.  I want to have a different relationship with the built environment. I’m constantly searching for where a city’s history is buried, seeking out the truth of our urban existence, something that most of us have lost touch with. I continue to search out (and often access undetected) these spaces and bring them to others in photographs.  I am addicted to that immutable tendency of all things to fall apart…as well as for finding creative ways to showcase our past as a means of gaining a deeper appreciation of our present. I look forward to sharing the research, knowledge, and experience that goes into this practice in hopes of encouraging others to look at their surroundings a little bit differently. Photo by Jullian Jaramillo
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Best Made Guide Bio: Jeremy Blakeslee, Urban Archaeology

I’ve been exploring and documenting America’s industrial past for fifteen years, beginning with my first love, the former Bethlehem Steel Plant in Southeastern Pennsylvania. While I’ve traveled over several continents photographing architecture, machinery and the ruins of indigenous cultures, I feel a special calling to preserve the history and heroism of the mechanical beasts of burden that carried America into and through the industrial revolution. These often dangerous and less traveled spaces… the forgotten mines, steel mills, rail systems, and cities…. still have a story to tell us about ourselves. 

I want to have a different relationship with the built environment. I’m constantly searching for where a city’s history is buried, seeking out the truth of our urban existence, something that most of us have lost touch with. I continue to search out (and often access undetected) these spaces and bring them to others in photographs. 

I am addicted to that immutable tendency of all things to fall apart…as well as for finding creative ways to showcase our past as a means of gaining a deeper appreciation of our present. I look forward to sharing the research, knowledge, and experience that goes into this practice in hopes of encouraging others to look at their surroundings a little bit differently.

Photo by Jullian Jaramillo

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