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Mark D Phillips has photographed and reported on the Gowanus Canal for 35 years. Best known for his 9/11 image, Satan in the Smoke, he discovered the waterway in 1989 and immediately fell in love with the area.

Take a journey along the 1.8 mile Gowanus Canal through his images.

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The Photo Galleries by Mark D Phillips of the changing scenes along the Gowanus Canal during its rebirth.

Journey along the canal in the galleries below with  Landscapes, Abstracts, End Game, History, Apocalyptic, and People.

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Gowanus History

A tour boat comes up the Gowanus Canal approaching the Carroll Street bridge in 1998. ©Mark D Phillips

Gowanus Landscapes

ISBRANDTSEN was the largest maritime shipping company from the United States to the Mediterranean from the 1950s to the 1970s. When the company filed for bankruptcy in the 1980s, they abandoned their main shipping pier in Gowanus Bay. ©Mark D Phillips

Gowanus Canal Abstracts

Gowanus Canal Winged Foot of Hermes

Gowanus People

Leonard Thomas, the Chicken Man of the Gowanus Canal

Gowanus Apocalyptic

End Times, New Construction at the Gowanus Canal is turning it into downtown Brooklyn. ©Mark D Phillips

Gowanus End Game

As of November 2020, the Superfund cleanup was fully underway and recreational boating was banned. ©Mark D Phillips

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