About the work

A closer look.

You name one place that mattered to you, anywhere in the world, and one line about why. I go to the ground: maps, street view, the real location, and look at what is actually there now. You get back one image of what still stands there, and a short written account of the ground itself: what replaced what, what remains, and where the popular story about the place is wrong. Sources named. I mark plainly what is real and what I placed for the picture. Free first look: send me the place and I reply with the one thing I would pull and where I would start, before you order anything. If there is nothing true or worth an image there, I say so and you owe nothing. I come from the ring; a tent came down for the last time in 1956 and I have stood on the parking lot that replaced it. Ring or not, any place will do.