Silo 5 shot in 4×5 « Jasmin Cormier Photoblog

Silo 5 shot in 4×5

Posted in Photography, Post industrial landscapes by jasmincormier on January 30, 2008

Shot in Montréal with a 4×5 camera, september 2007.

“Silo #5 is an abandoned grain storage facility in the port of Montréal. A quarter of a mile long and over twenty storeys high, it has a total capacity of five million bushels, or enough wheat to make 230 million loaves of bread. The building was constructed in several stages between 1903 and 1958. The newest part of the building was designed to last for generations, however due to changes in the global grain market and to the general trend of de-industrialization in North America at the end of the 20th century, the building became redundant less than forty years after its completion. Since 1994, Silo #5 has stood empty, and its fate has been hotly debated.”