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From Pawnshops to Funeral Homes, Photographer Documents The Fate of the Last Remaining Pizza Huts Posted: 06 Oct 2015 05:00 AM PDT The Great Wall, Glendale Heights, IL, USA Copycat, California, PA, USA Ho Hai Tran and his partner Chloe Cahill have traveled over 14,000 kilometers between Australia, New Zealand, and the USA on a very special road trip of sorts, dedicated not to the landscape of these majestic lands nor in an ode to Robert Frank (refreshing!) but to finding and documenting all of the original Pizza Hut restaurants that were built in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. The photographing duo has captured around 100 huts; most of the original Pizza Huts have been repurposed or refurbished and are barely recognizable now, reincarnated as Chinese fast-food restaurants, grocery stores, pawnshops, and funeral homes. The duo has set up a Kickstarter to finish their project and turn it into a book. Tran writes: “As a child growing up in New Zealand during the ’90s, the local Pizza Hut was a place of wonder. A world of red checked tablecloths, pizza by the slice and an endless supply of soft serve. When I was eight, the ‘Book It’ program offered me a clear path to all of the pizza, garlic bread, and jelly cubes my heart desired.” He continues, The Pizza Hut “is a celebration of the golden era of dine-in fast food. For anyone who’s ever made a mountain of mini marshmallows on their self-serve sundae, maxed out on free refills at the drink fountain or driven past a hut and felt its strange allure – this book’s for you.” This project was inspired by the buildings themselves, says Tran. “Both the strong visual features that these buildings have and their ability to evoke certain memories from my childhood were enough to drive us to investigate further. Now that the buildings are operating as different business, it is fascinating to see what businesses have breathed new life into the buildings, how they are reinterpreted as a new brand and what lengths they go to either disguise or embrace the past.” Tran believes it’s “important to photograph these huts now before they vanish. It’s a snapshot of what they have become which enables us to reflect on shifts in tastes and the end of the golden era of dine-in fast food.” Seoul Hoikwan Restaurant, Belfield, NSW, Australia House of Joy, Glendale CA, USA Demolished – North Geelong VIC 3215, Australia Vacant, West Palm Beach, FL, USA Church of Our Savior, Boynton Beach, FL, USA Los Burritos Mexicanos, St Charles, IL, USA Simply Stereo, Hoffman Estates, IL, USA IGA, Frankston, VIC Australia Davinci Homes, Murrysville, PA, USA Olsens Funerals, Revesby, NSW, Australia All image © Hoi Han Tran The post From Pawnshops to Funeral Homes, Photographer Documents The Fate of the Last Remaining Pizza Huts appeared first on Feature Shoot.

Call for Submissions: Photos That Are Totally ‘Off the Wall’ Posted: 05 Oct 2015 07:05 AM PDT Thanksgiving, New York, NY © Jessica Pettway From performance artists to Wall Street tycoons, everyone has a bit of quirk lingering inside; it’s just a matter of how much we’re willing to show in public. For our latest group show, we’re giving you a free pass to bare all and embrace all things offbeat, idiosyncratic, or just plain weird. That’s right, we’re looking for your most “Off the Wall” photographs, images that (literally or figuratively) are just too bizarre to to be confined only to a gallery wall. This group show will be curated by Gabriel H. Sanchez, Photo Essay Editor at BuzzFeed, who has an eye for everything from the comical to the profound to all things viral. The top three winners will receive a free one-year subscription to Squarespace, the intuitive website publishing platform that makes it simple for photographers to build creative and professional sites with their combo of award-winning designs, hosting, domains, and commerce. Selected photos will run on the Feature Shoot website and be promoted through our social media channels. Copyright remains with the photographer. To submit, email up to five images (620 pixels wide on the shortest side, saved for web, no borders or watermarks) titled with your name and the number of the image (ex: yourname_01.jpg) to fsgroupshow (at) gmail (dot) com with “Off the Wall” in the subject line. Please include your full name, website and image captions within the body of the email. You may also submit via Instagram by posting your images using the hashtag #offthewallfs. Deadline for submissions is October 13, 2015. Squarespace is a Feature Shoot sponsor. The post Call for Submissions: Photos That Are Totally ‘Off the Wall’ appeared first on Feature Shoot.