Christopher Crawford

This is a photograph that I made a few years ago in Allen County, Indiana a few miles outside the city of Fort Wayne. I still have a lot of my Indiana work to add to the website and this is the latest to go online.

This is the door to a summer kitchen, a small building built behind a farmhouse to allow cooking in the summer without heating up the main house. It is a tiny building with two rooms and three doors, one on each end and one on the side. It sits on stone blocks like an old hillbilly shack and has a tin roof. The old man who owns the land says it was moved there in 1924 from a place down the street where it was built in the 19th century. The house it stood behind is long gone and the summer kitchen likely will be too before long as it’s in bad condition and had been attacked by vandals several times before I moved to Santa Fe.

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The little town of Cerrillos, New Mexico (Population about 200) is one of my favorite places to photograph in Santa Fe County. The town was founded as a mining town in the late 19th century and still looks like an old west town. Most of the buildings are abandoned and some people classify it as a ghost town, though it does have a small population and a few businesses, such as Mary’s Bar.

This old Cantina has been abandoned for a long time, though recently construction work began on the building so it may have a future. This photograph was made back in January, 2007.

See the rest of my New Mexico project here.