Guarding the Ruins of Detroit

Author(s): Jonathan Mijs

Type: Photograph

Department: International Inequalities Institute

Exhibit no: 2


Jonathan Mijs
Outside a movie set that looks like rubble, a guard fights sleep (and loses), in Detroit.

I was struck by this sight of a security guard in downtown Detroit, guarding what looks like rubble in a city that has no shortage of it.

These ruins however are fake; part of a movie set constructed in the heart of the city.