Finalist
William B. Plowman
Redux Pictures
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"GARY, INDIANA: CITY OF STEEL"
Arnita Rudder, left, looks at her daughter Latoya, after Latoya recently learned a friend of her son's was gunned down in Gary, Indiana. Rudder has since closed her restaurant and moved away from Gary. The city's population peaked in the early 1960s at roughly 174,000 residents but has fallen to around 80,000 according to the latest U.S. Census in 2010. In addition to the collapsing infrastructure and deteriorating buildings, the number of abandoned houses is sharply increasing as people leave the city.
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