To view this site you need Adobe Flash Player and your browser must allow javaScripts. Go here to get the latest Flash Player. Demolition companies don’t hire photographers to document their deconstruction projects. “The DEMCO contract to demolish The Aud called for basic photographs every couple of weeks or so, showing the progress to-date. The project manager is supposed to do that. What I did was volunteer for a job that didn’t exist. It started when a friend was meeting another friend at The Aud. Did I want to come, too? Talk at that meeting quickly turned to how I could insinuate myself into the demolition– my last attempt to get into The Aud for free. Or at all. I have a camera, I live around the corner, I am happiest when my leisure time is occupied completely by hockey. The project manager did not want to take the photos himself. And I only wanted rocks and stuff from The Aud in return. “Camera Girl” was born. There were no waiver forms handy, so we pinky-swore on liability (I’m a lawyer, so I know what works). I got my own hard hat. I got a key to the gate so I could park there for hockey games. And I got more than seven thousand photographs of the methodical removal of a Buffalo icon.” - Suzanne K. Taylor SUZANNE K. TAYLOR The Aud Club, shortly before its demolition. 5 5 A view of the future of Buffalo’s waterfront from inside the Sabres’ locker room. SUZANNE K. TAYLOR