An article recently ran featuring work I did for Der Spiegel last summer. The story focuses on the slow economic decline of the city of San Bernardino – home of the original McDonald’s restaurant – as it teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, which it officially filed for less than a month after our visit. We – myself, the writer and a videographer – spent a long, hot, winding day in the depressed town of 213,000 that took us from the site of the restaurant, which is now an independently operated museum, to a number of agencies, a brief visit with firefighters at risk of losing their jobs and finally to a city council meeting where the council discussed possible austerity measures that would be required to eventually dig out of this mess. Something that at this point seems a long way away. The article’s an interesting read. Check it out here.