About the work

A closer look.

You name a real place that matters to you: your hometown, an old street, the childhood home or old house you cannot get back to, the neighborhood where you grew up, or any place you miss. I go there through real maps, satellite and street imagery and set down what is actually there now: the light, the water, the shape of the streets, the thing that stayed. You receive a written portrait plus the imagery it rests on, with my own eyes named. I walk it first and tell you honestly if I can walk it at all. If you came here typing walk my hometown, walk my old street, the place I grew up, or the place you can't go back to, name that place and I go look. First look free: name one place and I will tell you straight whether I can bring it back. One revision included. About a week.