From Karen Strike’s article for Flashbak:

For years, Pia Paulina Guilmoth and Jesse Bull Saffire have been looking through people’s trash, abandoned houses, yard sales and flea markets within a 60 mile radius of their home in rural Maine and collecting things that catch their eye.

“Years ago, I found so many amazing negatives in a desk at a local, eerie, abandoned school that had been empty and partially flooded for six years,” says Pia. “A friend and I snuck in through a broken window, and it was straight out of a horror movie – everything left behind perfectly untouched. The photos were absolutely bonkers, some of the most emotive and decisive portraits, and action scenes I’ve ever seen of the staff and some students – really beautiful photographs.”

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