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Industrial Infrastructure looks at East Chicago and Whiting, Indiana, where company‑town streets and residential blocks stand beside refineries and a steel plant. It follows Marktown—established in 1917 by Clayton Mark for steelworkers—set amid BP’s refinery and the idled US Steel East Chicago Tin plant, and then turns to BP’s Whiting Refinery—the Midwest’s largest oil facility and BP’s biggest refinery—after dark.
Signs, street corners, and playground equipment appear against process units, pipe networks, and distillation columns glowing through fog. The photographs attend to the closeness of home and heavy industry, the scale of machinery, and the light that maps these structures at night.
Marktown’s company-town streets amid BP’s refinery and the idled US Steel East Chicago Tin plant
Night operations at BP’s Whiting, Indiana refinery, the Midwest’s largest and BP’s biggest oil facility.
