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Photographer, writer and documentarian Camilo José Vergara is renowned for his photographic documentation of American slums and decaying urban neighbourhoods, often returning to the same areas to track the decline and development of specific buildings and urban environments over time.
In a recent photo-essay he explores the striking contrast between inhabited and deserted architecture, documenting the effects of declining urban population and property deterioration in paired townhouses in Camden, N.J.

image: 908 N. 24^th St., Camden, 2004. source

image: The same spot, five years later. The boarded-up house has been demolished. 908 N. 24^th St., Camden, 2009. source

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