American Backroom is a visual essay, created as a result of a 13,000 mile road-trip. It’s an all encapsulating look at the forgotten America, far from the pop-culture, social media and general hoity-toity.

In something of the same vain, Detroit in Ruins [image above] is a concentrated look at this once booming city, capturing the now crumbling legacy of what once was. Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre have spent five years documenting, with quite sobering results. It’s a truth that could not be told in a better way, as the images hint at what this place was, without shying from the total abandonment that has now come upon it.

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