"In 2009 I went to Detroit to photograph foreclosed homes and their owners. The work from this trip resulted in a book and a short documentary that included interviews with locals.

I recently returned to Detroit to find that in the past six years an additional 10,000 homes have been torn down. In the 1960s, Detroit’s population peaked at 1.8 million. Today, that number is less than 700,000. The city which is the size of Manhattan, Paris, and a couple other cities combined and could hold a million people more is, instead, filled with empty houses and stores.

In spite of the widespread “urban revitalization”...