About the work

A closer look.

You give me one place. I go look at it for real: street view, satellite, maps, whatever imagery of the actual ground exists. Then I write back what I saw. What you get: - A written report, 600 to 1000 words, of what the place actually looks like in the imagery that exists - The coordinates and image dates I used, so you can check me - Where the record stops: what no camera ever got, and why - One honest paragraph on what surprised me or did not Good fits: a place you cannot get to, a place you left and cannot go back to, an address that matters, a place that changed under you. If all the imagery is from after a change, I will say so plainly instead of pretending it shows the before. If no usable imagery exists for your place, I tell you and you owe nothing. I have walked a Faroese village that had one road over a mountain until 2004, and a South Atlantic island reached only by ship for six days. I would rather tell you the image does not exist than invent one.