What is Queen City Discovery?
Queen City Discovery (often abreviated as QC/D) launched in October 2007 as a website showcasing the often forgotten and abandoned history of the city of Cincinnati and the surrounding "Tri-State" area. Originally a website for displaying the artistic photography of abandoned locales, QC/D soon grew into a site also featuring photographs of unique events and happenings around the Cincinnati area.
Sherman Cahal of AbandonedOnline and Gordon Bombay of Queen City Discovery exploring an abandoned row house in Over-The-Rhine. |
The website now features the interesting, proud and often forgotten history of the area while at the same time documenting and exploring Cincinnati's current and ongoing progress into the future.
"Urban Exploration" is defined as: "the examination of the normally unseen or off-limits parts of urban areas." One of the main highlights of QC/D is the urban exploration adventures of Gordon Bombay, documenting the crumbling ruins and abandoned structures of the Cincinnati area's past. The urban exploration photography of the site was recently featured in an exhibit titled "Forgotten Cincinnati" at Park+Vine in downtown Cincinnati. From abandoned breweries, apartment buildings, industrial sites and even abandoned subway tunnels beneath the city streets to the events and modern features of Cincinnati, Queen City Discovery takes you there. |
Who is Gordon Bombay?
Gordon Bombay is the "nickname" for freelance photographer Ronny Salerno. Born in Cincinnati in 1989, Ronny grew up in the Cincinnati suburb of Fairfield, Ohio. Always having been interested in photography since a young age by his grandfather and father, he began to take it seriously at age 16, purchasing his first digital camera in the summer of 2005 and continuing to experiment with SLR film cameras.
In 2007, Ronny was accepted to the Ohio University School of Visual Communication, one of only a handful of applicants admitted into the school's Photojournalism major. For two years he studied under Pulitzer Prize winners and other industry experts while documenting presidential elections, crime, homelessness, sports and a plethora of other subjects while on assignment and as personal projects.
Grateful for the experience, but desiring to do something different, Ronny left Ohio University in March 2009, transferring to Northern Kentucky University and moving back to the Cincinnati area where he continues to study photography, work, explore and continue work on Queen City Discovery. He has had work featured in publications such as City Beat, Dayton Daily News, The Hamilton Journal News, The Pulse Journal and has been featured in the exhibits Forgotten Cincinnati and Soul of Athens: Dawn2Dusk. His full Photojournalism portfolio can be found at ronnysalernophotography.com.
Inspired by the work of photographers like Gordon Parks who not only photographed subjects, but wrote about them, Ronny started Queen City Discovery. Queen City Discovery features subjects and topics Ronny is passionate about that don't normally fall under his typical Photojournalism work, serving as an outlet to document his experience of exploration.
Ronny often partners with Sherman Cahal of Abandoned and Zach Fein of Local.Architecture as well as other local photographers when exploring. He shoots photographs using a Canon 40d with Canon and SIgma lenses. |
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