Anthony VonBargen

INDUSTRIAL WONDERLAND.  There are rundown abandoned factories, and then there is the Powder Factory in a small town outside Cincinnati, Ohio.  Climb through a window or crawl in over a crumbling wall and you're transported to a fantasy world.  Vines, trees, and moss grow freely inside its dilapidated walls;  nature reclaiming the territory industry once tried to steal from it. As I shot this series of photographs, I couldn't help but imagine model Anthony VonBargen as ruler of these ruins.  Even in this amazing setting, Anthony demanded the attention of the camera.  His body lines and shapes...

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