A photography exhibition at Tanner Hill Galleries on May 8 is the first installment of Mary Barnett's dual project of photography and documentary on the closing and demolition of one of Chattanooga's prominent industrial sites, the U.S. Pipe and Foundry plant.
The series of images in this exhibit were selected based on stories shared by the plant's former workers, interviewed by the photographer.
The series also explores the ironic aspects of demolition that physically and visually distort the place of memory and yet brings to the eye's attention a new fascinating array of images, of the graveyard machinery and industrial debris: images which appear to have a life of their own.
It will be 5:30-8 p.m. at the gallery at 3069 S. Broad St. in the Southern Saddlery Building.