Had a fun assignment for TIME photographing inside of Cheyenne Mountain, a Cold War-era bunker situated inside of a hollowed out mountain west of Colorado Springs. The facility was originally designed to sustain an air-dropped nuclear bomb and worked to track space and missile launches around the globe. The advent of nuclear weaponry capable of leveling the mountain rendered the facility somewhat obsolete; its mission has since been moved to an office building on a nearby Air Force Base although the mountain is still staffed as a backup.
Photographing this assignment was a bit of a challenge. The Major giving the tour laid out an interesting set of rules:
- All people wearing name tags cannot be photographed.
- All people in the facility, including people touring the facility, must wear name tags.
- All photographs will be reviewed for offending material and will be deleted.
People-less photography. That's pretty much the bottom line of the experience, with exception where mountain-workers had notice to conceal their name tags. Rather than fight with the rules, I spent the afternoon making clean, empty pictures of a clean, and largely obsolete building. TIME.com liked it enough to turn it into an essay and I am proud of the result.
Have a look -->TIME.com Cold War Mountain Essay
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1 comment:
Way to go man. I really loved the pics, and it must have been a blast to go into Cheyenne Mt.
Did they let you see the Stargate?
Anyways, you rock my socks, like normal.
- Zac
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