misterjt: When people champion transformations in urban areas, they often words like “renewal” and “revitalization,” as rundown buildings get gutted, repainted, and reincarnated as sparkly lofts. But what’s sometimes ignored is the forced removal of the people who inhabit those rundown (and often historic) spaces. Two years ago, the photographer David Sotelo ventured into downtown Los Angeles’s former El Dorado Hotel, which had been home to a great many people and families, but was vacated when the building changed ownership. Sotelo managed—through a combination of luck and urban spelunking—to make many trips to the hotel during the time between the old residents’ forced exodus and the building’s renovation. Now a set of high-end lofts, the El Dorado that appears in Sotelo’s work evokes haunting feelings, as the vacant rooms are littered with things that residents left behind and covered with the imprints of human lives. (via Picture Show: The El Dorado Hotel - Picture Show - GOOD)

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When people champion transformations in urban areas, they often words like “renewal” and “revitalization,” as rundown buildings get gutted, repainted, and reincarnated as sparkly lofts. But what’s sometimes ignored is the forced removal of the people who inhabit those rundown (and often historic) spaces. Two years ago, the photographer David Sotelo ventured into downtown Los Angeles’s former El Dorado Hotel, which had been home to a great many people and families, but was vacated when the building changed ownership. Sotelo managed—through a combination of luck and urban spelunking—to make many trips to the hotel during the time between the old residents’ forced exodus and the building’s renovation. Now a set of high-end lofts, the El Dorado that appears in Sotelo’s work evokes haunting feelings, as the vacant rooms are littered with things that residents left behind and covered with the imprints of human lives.

(via Picture Show: The El Dorado Hotel - Picture Show - GOOD)

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