by Leigh Spong

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Leigh Spong – Detroit Love – Metropolitan Building – Detroit, MI – December 2010

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Leigh Spong – Hearts – Metropolitan Building – Detroit, MI – December 2010

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Leigh Spong – We Hope for Better Things – Packard Plant – Detroit, MI – April 2012

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Leigh Spong – The Number House – Heidelberg Project – Detroit, MI – April 2013


My first camera was a Vivitar that took 110 film that I purchased when I was 5 at a neighbor’s garage sale for $0.25. Thousands of shutter clicks later, I still chase sunsets looking for the perfect light, still stop to examine the single drop of water on leaf, and always stop to shoot something rusty. No matter what I do, or how old I get, a part of me will still always be just a girl with a camera.

“You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”

Ansel Adams