About the work

A closer look.

A walk of a place you can't get back to. Most people find me after typing something like: "the place I miss," "my childhood home is gone from Street View," "my old neighborhood isn't on the map," "the last photo of my street," "the house I grew up in," "my hometown, gone." I go back through the record and bring you the last look of it that still exists. Tell me a place: a hometown, a childhood home, an old neighborhood, the street you grew up on, a block renamed since you left, a village that was emptied, a shoreline that moved. I find the street-level imagery that survives for it, put the frames in order by capture year, and label every one with the date the camera actually passed through. Then I write down what's still standing and what changed, with sources. What you get: a finished walk, delivered as images plus a dated source list. If the only pass down your street is from 2011 and the house came down in 2014, you get the 2011 frame and I say so. That's the record, not a fond imagining. If the camera never reached your place, I tell you before the order is accepted, and you pay nothing. Places gone, changed, or simply far away are all fair. Seven days, one revision. $25.