Armour Meat Packaging

Over a year ago I had the opportunity to explore an abandoned Meat packaging plant (the one and same plant I visited over 5 years ago). Not a thing had changed, but having grown so much as a photographer over the years this was a great opportunity to recapture a place seen by few.

The Armour Meat Packaging plant is a large abandoned facility outside of St. Louis. The gem of the building is the room at the heart of the structure, being a large open space housing most of the facilities equipment (seen in the panorama photo below).

We also had the chance to explore a nearby grain storage facility no longer in use. Unfortunately we could not go to the upper levels due the steps in the beautiful spiral staircase being completely removed. However we did explore the bowels of the structure, despite there being no light at all. The basement area was a labyrinth of rooms in all directions, with the main corridor being directly underneath the primary silos allowing you to look up to the outside. Down here we made use of flashlights for both sight and for taking photographs using Painting-With-Light techniques.

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