Kevin Kroeker

I remember these shots of yours Kevin. Thank you for sharing the history.

You are right – there’s so much that we don’t know. I know I always feel a sense of responsibility when I take this type of photo and a real desire to know why these places are as they are.

Wow, very interesting but tragic story, such a shame!

Wow, awesome story even though it’s very tragic! The pictures are great,,wonderful work Kevin! Lots of ghost stories in Newfoundland. I found a book since I moved to BC, on ghost stories here on this coast, mostly in Victoria! The book said that ghost exist mostly in wet and foggy places like Vancouver Island and Newfoundland. :)

Kevin I just want to say how much I admire your work. It’s not often that an image strikes me emotionally, but yours do. I would certainly understand why you wouldn’t want to return to that homestead, but think about it this way….You have a way of with your work-of expressing what those there may have felt, the tragedy and loss and abandonment is thoroughly expressed in your work. In my opinion, that is our job as photographers to envoke emotion of some type. You’ve done a great thing. There are so many untold stories and tragic situations in this world. Keep up the outstanding work.

As the old saying goes Kevin “every picture tells a story!” Yours certainly do. Well done for dragging this one into the light. Often once exposed the pain is allowed to heal. Well told in words & pictures. Cheers Lee

There are many places that we have visited that I don’t feel I ever want to return to. You are right in that we often take images of an unknown tragic place. One such lies just outside of my town where to people were shot and later another killed himself. Many places of violent deaths are subject to quite malevolent spirits. We always do an opening and closing prayer at locations we visit. On the last visit to the house I mentioned above we forgot the closing. Now my Fiance and I and one other team member have had strange activities in our homes. We have been seeing a large shadow person over the past month or so and are getting ready to Bless our house to encourage it to move on. Be careful at these places! I used to be a skeptic, but have seen enough now that I know differently. Excellent images my friend!

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~Tim

I remember this series, and thankyou for sharing the newly discovered history on the property…Tis very sad indeed but I am glad you had the opportunity to capture this homestead and added the history so we could place the story to the images

That is one hell of a story Kevin.
I thank you for bring to my attention what posibilities lie with the walls of some of these old places that we photograph…
I will now do my homework with at least two that I photograph.
Like you, I have taken them for granted and used them just for the images.
And your set of images that go with this story make the story complete.
You have given me a short but amazing journey…
Thanks mate.

Oh wow. :(

Thanks for sharing this, Kevin. It helps us, too. I completely understand and agree with your decision not to go back, too. Respect comes in many forms. Very wise thinking.

respect does come in many forms

I remember this series Kevin. They are fantastic images. It is a sad history that the house holds. Having the pictures to connect with the story gives a clear image. Your decision not to return to this place is understandable.
Many places have a history and I do know that your images were meant to be disrespectful.
Sometimes it is difficult to get the ‘real’ story behind many old buildings but just about all of them muct have some sort of sad history to be left in the condition that we find them in perhaps not the same painful history as this building but sad non-the-less.. It does make one think though and for that I thank you.
I continue to look forward to seeing more of your work.
Rosemaree

Very cool story indeed, and I too wonder the stories that lie beneath some of our images as well….Excellent images too!!

Thank you for these shots and for the story! It is important to understand what draws us to a place or event, even after…
These are great photographs!

I’ve shot a few places like this myself-with a similiar history.I sometimes feel duty bound to shoot them quite honestly-it’s part of the story, it hasn’t ended.Great series btw.

Powerfully evocative images, Kevin!
Buildings absorb the energies of people who live in them, whether positive or negative, and these energies linger… I’ve often had a deeply visceral reaction to a place, and wondered what it’s history might have illuminated.
Thanks for sharing the story behind the images. Such a tragic and haunting event.

a tragic story accompanying some really evocative images ~ great caaptures well presented ~ well done

YOUR PHOTOS WERE AMONG THE FIRST SAW WHEN I JOINED RED BUBBLE 6 MONTHS AGO. I WAS ADDICTED TO YOUR HEART WRENCHING PHOTOS,AND LIKE MANY OTHERS ,I WONDERED,,,,WHY.,WHO WERE THESE PEOPLE. THANK YOU FOR TELLING US HOW IT ENDED…

fabulous work.

Sad Sad story…............but you have captured it’s history in such beautiful and powerful way..your images are just stunning….....................and they are there to be treasured and not forget!! great work!

Excellent.

this is powerful. Wow. You have touched the soul of this house.

Your haunting images tell this tragic story well.

Omg what story, I love your images though. There is something that has fascinated me for a long time about old forgotten houses…I don’t know what it is but you have captured this well.

that is a sad story, i think in all these images there is a sense that something tragic happened long ago.. ( i think im too tired.. i wrote that is a great story, then when i read back through my comment i was like what? i didnt write that.. cause its not really great, but sad.. shh now)

I agree with what Pamela B has added earlier, I also believe as artists (photographers) we also capture a moment in history that would otherwise be lost. In years to come the house will be bulldozed as will that Newfoundland Hospital, yet you now have a precious memory to depict it’s lost moments. many of these places have the happy snaps and warm memories of days past, but not many have stopped to see the moments of decay that still cry out to be noticed.
You have and continue to do an outstanding job. I love your photos. All the best.

What you have done Kevin is add emotion to a scene. Not simply taken a photograph.
Therin lies a talent not all of us can successfully portray.

I love abandoned houses…I have just returned from Rathlin Island, I’d visited a house a year ago and wanted to go back and take my time, a lot of my previous images were blurred. The house was hardly visible behind the overgrown trees, vandals had been in and wrecked stuff but there was still enough to catch my eye, then I noticed a door I hadnt seen before. It was a bedroom with clothes still hanging in the wardrope. I felt a bit creeped out. I talked to someone who knew the old man who lived there, he thought it was good for me to record life before it crumbles away. The man died of cancer within a year of finding out…I wont return again I felt a sadness there…

Thank you for sharing the story. I puts a completely different view to the photos…. More tragic & Sad. Love Lies Bleeding.