Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Photographer
Born in Bayonne, N.J. and raised in Royal Oak, photographer Donna Terek -- nicknamed "Turk" -- lives and works in the city of Detroit. Once upon a time she worked the graveyard shift in a GM bearing plant, put those tiny brushes in nail polish bottles for L'Oreal, taught English in Greece, night-staffed in a home for developmentally disabled adults, collected loans for a bank, served cocktails in Omaha, ran a phone bank in Atlanta, taught high school in rural Minnesota and bummed on a beach in Mexico where the locals claim to have invented surfing.
Terek was tolerated as a token hippie at Miami University and got her M.A. in journalism at the University of Minnesota. Today she lives with her husband and two dogs, C.C. Ryder and S.O. Terek, in one of Detroit's historic neighborhoods. She can be reached at dterek@detnews.com.
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Vinyl records firm presses on
Detroit's Archer Records is one of the last companies in the world still making vinyl records. This third-generation family business doesn't fear the death of vinyl; it fears its massive record machines will break down -- and nobody makes those babies anymore.
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