LAST DAYS OF DETROIT
Mark Binelli painted a vibrant and accurate picture of Detroit through the history, presence and future of the, once was, the most iconic city in America and its people. Detroit was the dream town of capitalism, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age; then, it became the largest urban failure, the collapse of an industrial giant in America.
The project focuses on panting the collapse of the capitalist dream town to convey the feelings of abandonment, neglect and post-apocalypse.
The book is written in the form of a story-telling from the time the author was still a young kid, lots of details are described vividly from his memory, which makes the entire feel as a personal journal of the author. Handwritten text is incorporated to convey that feeling, making the story feel as the audience are reading from Binelli's journal growing up.
Detroit is painted to be abandoned and neglected; hence, several filters are applied to images to provoke those feelings, walking the audience through a post-apocalyptic Detroit.
The dark tone emphasises the darkest time of Detroit after the collapse of a humongous motor cars industry. It conveys how deep and far Detroit has fallen.
