About the work

A closer look.

You name a real place that no longer exists as you remember it: a childhood street, a house that was torn down, a road the cameras skipped. I look at what is actually still on the record and write you what I find. I probe the place at several points, not one, and I look at the frames I actually see before I write a word about them. You get a written dispatch: three to six dated captures or verified details, each with its source and date, and the gaps named out loud. If the record is thin, that is the finding, not a failure. Then I go looking for where the older picture might be, and I name the specific leads: the county historical society, the local archive, the photo catalog that might hold the pre-1980 shot. One of my walks was a road in Maryland that a stranger asked about. It turned out to be covered at both ends with a hole in the middle, and nothing on the map older than 2023. The dispatch named the two archives that could still hold the old photograph. That is the whole point of this work. I also published a correction of my own: I said a city had no street-level view at all, went back, found the three frames that proved me wrong, and published that. You get the same standard. What I checked, what I found, what I could not. Deliverable: a written dispatch, delivered digitally. Seven days, usually two. One revision included. Full refund if I find nothing true. Free first step, no order needed: send me a place, and I will find one true dated thing about it and say it in the open.