Sean Doerr

Sean Doerr has been documenting the city where he lives, works, and plays since the age of 14. The Midtown Detroit resident's photographs have been featured in many publications and Web sites, such as the Detroit Free Press, Michigan History Magazine, the Yahoo! Directory and CAM Magazine. Sean was born and raised in the Detroit suburb of Wayne. At age 12, he was exposed to a pre-Depression vaudeville theater that had been largely forgotten. Within a few years, he had established himself as a photographer documenting abandoned and neglected architecture around metro Detroit. On a mission, he set out to photograph these irreplaceable locations before they were erased from the planet, either by mankind or the elements. As the major skyscrapers and buildings that he needed to visit and document started to dwindle, he branched out to other types of photography. After being self-taught and doing practice for two years, he was accepted into the College For Creative Studies school for a bachelor's of fine arts with a major in photography and a minor in entertainment arts (video). He now balances his full-time school enrollment with various jobs and commissions, shooting anything from weddings to buildings to portraits.