Chuck BeardPhotographer Chuck Beard is founder of the Abandoned Pittsburgh Gallery, which opened November 2016 in Pittsburgh's historic Homestead Municipal Building. He is art director at Pittsburgh Magazine and a prolific photographer in artistic and journalisic media. His ongoing Abandoned Pittsburgh project has led to research into and exploration of twenty-plus historic locations in the Pittsburgh area, including Carrie Furnace, Westinghouse Atom Smasher, Duquesne Steel Works, Overholt Distillery, and the Western Pennsylvania Penitentiary. The project documents the Steel City's forgotten industrial and community sites where beauty in decay still exists. He lives in the North Hills of Pittsburgh. Read More Read Less