INDUSTRIALISM

Industrialism is a photographic exploration of large-scale manufacturing environments captured in facilities around the world, taken over four decades. This body of work examines what remains when production ends, when spaces built for power, efficiency, and output fall silent, and time begins to reclaim them.

These images reveal the aftermath of global ambition: massive, echoing structures where industry once roared, now stilled into meditative quiet. Rusting cathedrals of production bear the marks of labor and intention, their original utility faded but not erased. Beauty persists in geometry, surface, shadow, and scale, etched into steel, concrete, and dust.

Rather than documenting decline, Industrialism considers transformation. These spaces exist in suspension, between function and memory, progress and entropy. They reflect humanity’s drive to build, optimize, and expand, and the inevitability of change that follows.

This work invites slow looking. In these remnants of industry, endurance and structure remain, evidence of human ambition, not as spectacle, but as quiet presence. As part of Every Thing Changes, these photographs acknowledge transformation as both constant and unavoidable, reshaping the meaning of the spaces we build.

- Robert Levy

This work presents the construction of the Gordie Howe International Bridge as a single visual sentence. Printed as a 13" x 240" continuous line, the photographs reject individual framing in the favor of duration.

 Black and white emphasizes structure, rhythm, and interruption - the physical language of building. The absence of boarders collapses distinction between images, mirroring the way large systems are formed through accumulation.

 After 35 years in commercial photography, this project reflects a shift from assignment to attention. The bridge becomes less an object than a measure of time, labor, and movement. The viewer is asked not to stand still, but to follow.

 - Eric Perry