The subject for my photo essay was the decay at an abandoned factory in Swansea, MA . I selected this place for my photo essay because it brings back memories from when I first began skateboarding and I came here, and I feel like it is an under-photographed and forgotten area with lots of interesting photo opportunities. The concept I'm trying to portray in this is urban decay, the passage of time, and structure, especially in how this was once a bustling industrial area but now it's a ghost town. Visually these images captured the narrative of my essay in how it is as if you are going for walk through starting at the entrance and moving on. I arranged the images so that similar looking photos, colors, and textures are grouped together and so that each photo merges into the next one by how the objects in them line up and the direction the objects are facing, such as the last four photos where the branches unify the pictures together to make it seem like side by side shots. I also unified the pictures by keeping similar colors in them and similar points of view for each of them.