Architecture nominee

The economic downturn has affected many countries and cities around the world. In the USA the plight suffered by the city of Detroit has been getting steadily worse over an even longer period of time. Once America’s fourth largest city, Detroit can fit Boston, San Francisco and Manhattan all within it’s limits. The population reached nearly two million during the boom time of the fifties. Since then around one million people have left the city.
One major consequence to Detroit’s problems has been the abandonment of many homes, commercial and government buildings, including even some schools, libraries, and churches.
I became so interested in both the social change, and the visual transformation taking place all over the state of Detroit, I felt compelled to experience seeing it for myself and document what I saw.

Ron Bambridge is an internationally recognised multi award winning photographer.
He’s worked professionally for over the past twenty five years, and his photography has been published in all media formats, on assignments that have taken him around the world. 

Ron’s many awards include:

Winner 'Best AOP Photographer 2013' at the Association of Photography Open Awards for his Detroit photography.

Kodak award for Best panoramic photography in the National Business calendar awards
The following awards received over past years in The Association of Photographers awards London :
Gold for British Landscape series
Silver for interiors, exteriors
Merits people portraiture series
Merit interiors and exterior series
Merit for Icelandic Landscape non commissioned colour

In the London photographic awards :
Winner: Still Life category / environmental series / environmental colour
Work published in Graphis photography and Rotovision books
Portraiture included in the Aesthetica art prize

His large documentary black and white series about Brooklands.....
“100 Years of Brooklands birthplace of motor sport and aviation”
has been published as a hardback book by Touchstone Books.

Some of his black and white work for Brooklands selected for inclusion
in the Creative Review photography annual.
Honorable Mention for his Detroit photography selected for the