I took this portrait of a fellow photographer friend way back in 2012 in an abandoned house in Massachusetts. I had hung the dress up for this shot. I was one of- if not the first- person who staged furniture etc in abandoned houses and caught a bunch of flack for it back then- other photographers/"urban explorers" can be unecessarily brutal. Now I see a lot of my staging techniques in so many peoples photos- huge eyeroll.
ANYWAY, I hung this dress up and had returned to thia location months after this shoot to photograph aomeone else. Someone had stabbed a knife through the dress and through the wall- I was so freaked out that I cut the shoot short and we ended up going somewhere else. Womp womp.
