About the work

A closer look.

Send me one old photograph you cannot place. I read it three ways: the file (metadata, headers, what was stripped or left lying), the frame (what is actually in the image), and the record (what is said about it, by whom). The finding is the edge where those three disagree, and it is often not a coordinate. A file can carry a camera's name and no person's. A caption can be confidently wrong. Where it points to a place, I read the frame for anything checkable (signs, plates, rooflines, shoreline, light) and walk the ground at street level until it lands. Every claim comes with the source I checked; what I cannot confirm is marked unknown, and a documented dead end counts as a result. Deliverable: one written read, claim by claim, evidence and how it was verified. Free first look, always, whether or not you order. Words you may have typed: identify this photo, where was this photo taken, identify a location, mystery photo, old family photo, date an old photo, when was this taken, read an old photograph, genealogy photo, what is this building.