I worked with Garden Bay Films to turn my Bethlehem Steel photography into a movie. We combined my photographs with video I took while in the mill, juxtaposed it against archival imagery of Bethlehem Steel during its heyday, and added music that was contributed by some excellent independent musicians. The resulting movie bears the name of my photography exhibit: Almost Gone.

Aside from the director's commentary in the extras, Almost Gone contains no narration. It allows the images to do the talking. Yet we worked hard to make this different from the type of industrial infiltration videos you might find on YouTube. Almost Gone incorporates award-winning photography with gorgeous cinematic music. It focuses on Bethlehem Steel's magnificent and historic Lehigh plant and breaks it down into its major remaining components: no.2 machine shop, the welfare rooms, the blast furnaces, the gas-blowing engine room and a section on everything else.

Since making Almost Gone, Bethlehem's old Lehigh plant was purchased by Sands of Las Vegas who are currently redeveloping the site as a casino, hotel and retail destination. Almost Gone stands as one of the few, if not only, documentary videos to focus on the steelmill itself. It's a work I'm very proud of.

Almost Gone runs 20:44 minutes in length. Click here to view the trailer.