David T. Cole

@cole.fyi

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Black and white photograph of a glass door entrance to an Upper West Side apartment building in New York City. On the left, a dark metal door frame is fitted with a deadbolt lock and a decorative Greek key grille. The glass panel to the right bears the printed text "ADMIT NO STRANGERS / BE FIRM" in clean sans-serif capitals. Beyond the glass, tall narrow decorative panels — alternating dark and light — stand in the lobby, rendered soft by shallow focus. Fluorescent ceiling lights glow in the out-of-focus interior behind the left door.
View through a shattered window into the dim interior of an abandoned macadamia nut factory in Hawi, Hawaii. Shot with a film-like aesthetic — muted greens, crushed shadows, and high contrast give the image a melancholy, analog quality. The broken glass fills the foreground in sharp, radiating cracks, rendered bokeh-soft by shallow focus. Beyond it, the derelict interior comes into focus: a long corrugated metal-walled space with a low ceiling, concrete floor, and overgrown vegetation pressing in through open gaps at the far end. Light filters through windows on the left and an open passage ahead, its glow blown out against the surrounding darkness.