Think about Detroit architecture, and no doubt a dystopian vision of decaying houses springs to mind. Denver photographer Kevin Bauman has shot plenty of those. But he has also turned his camera on another, less theatrical mainstay of Detroit’s landscape: its little churches.
They’re everywhere: in old storefronts, former gas stations, strip malls, houses, and even garages behind houses. Some are deserted, many others still in use. "It seems that every structure has been a church, is a church, or will be one at some point," Bauman tells Co.Design. "Just about anything can be used as a church. Sometimes a building will be used for successive churches, and will bear the names of both the current, and the former church.