Motown Blues - images from Detroit by Chris Maluszynski

Street scene in Detroit, man walking on sidewalk among ruins of a building.
Photographer: Chris Maluszynski /MOMENT


Street scene in Detroit, two men walking past a mural.
Photographer: Chris Maluszynski /MOMENT


Street scene in Detroit - man outisde the Dodge Pick-Up truck plant in Warren (Detroit) Michigan.
Photographer: Chris Maluszynski /MOMENT

Roger Pay, worker at the Dodge plant in Warren, on his way out during a shift change...
Photographer: Chris Maluszynski /MOMENT


Chris Collins , worker at the Dodge plant in Warren, on his way out during a shift change...
Photographer: Chris Maluszynski /MOMENT

Street scene in Detroit - an abandoned gas station.
Photographer: Chris Maluszynski /MOMENT

Street scene in Detroit - abandoned factory..
Photographer: Chris Maluszynski /MOMENT

Street scene in Detroit. Man on a bicycle in the street...
Photographer: Chris Maluszynski /MOMENT


Street scene in Detroit.. Photographer: Chris Maluszynski /MOMENT

I like the photography of Chris Maluszynski and I feel priviliged to be able to show some of his work on 591. Knowing that he recently was in Detroit, I was eager to see his pictures from the city - depicting the human perspective of the recession affecting Detroit, Motown, the heart of auto industry in USA.

Chris Maluszynski
Born 1975 in Warsaw, Poland.
Moved to Sweden at age 7.
Studied physics and electrical engineering, history of art, history of photography and visual communication (MA) at the University of Linköping, Sweden, and Sorbonne, Paris.

Began his professional career in 1995 and has since worked for most of the major Swedish newspapers including staff positions at Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten. Also has professional experience as a picture editor.

Has been awarded numerous prizes in photography including first places in the Swedish Picture of The Year in 1999, 2001 and 2003. In 2005 he recieved an award in the Art and Worship World Prize in Iran, in 2006 he was awarded in the multimedia category of NPPA and in 2007 he recieved a prize in the celebrity portrait category in Best of Photojournalism.

His book “Systrar” was published in 2003.

All pictures courtesy of © Chris Maluszynski and MOMENT