Dec 8, 2011
As an employee for DuAll Services, a Twin Cities-based property-preservation firm, Peter Majerle helps clean out and clean up foreclosed homes so banks can better attempt to resell them.
The work is brutal, disgusting and often dangerous—imagine a twisted amalgamation of American Pickers, Dirty Jobs, Hoarders, C.S.I. and COPS. “There’s a certain SWAT team aspect because you’re going into a locked house,” the 32-year-old Columbia Heights native says. “You don’t know who or what’s in there.”
As his photos show, however, it can also lead to some beautiful discoveries.
Read about Majerle's work in our December story, The Voyeuristic Archaeologist, here.