Commissioned by ESCO Corporation before the closure of its Portland steel foundry, this series documents a vanishing world of industrial craft. “Industrial: Steel” captures the weight, heat, and rhythm of a plant that had shaped Portland’s working landscape for over a century — a final portrait of precision, endurance, and human skill before the furnaces fell silent.
Photographed at ESCO Corporation’s NW Portland foundry in 2015–2016, during the company’s decommissioning process.