PHOTO ESSAY
Colonial Lanes is enormous! It’s a double-sided center with 32 lanes per side and a horse-shoe shaped bar in the center. Situated north of Trenton, NJ, in Lawrenceville. Taken July 2007.
This hand-carved sign is on the door leading to the lounge at Bowl-a-Rama in Rutland, VT. Taken December 26, 2007.
and will do a body of work on one theme.” Seven years ago she was struggling to find that theme then one day Donnas reviewed all her negatives and noticed that she had taken photographs through the years of these old bowling alleys. It was one of life’s “a hah” moments and there was no turning back. The work she was naturally drawn to lead her to study with her mentor, Chuck Kelton, at the International Center of Photography in New York. He would both encourage and inspire Donnas to capture the soul of these pure symbols of pop culture. And so, her adventure began with plenty of thrills along the way. Donnas lived just outside of Philadelphia when she started going around photographing the metro Philly area. She came across a striking bowling alley and was fascinated with its old school mystique. Innocently, she started IBI
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