About the work

A closer look.

You name one real place. I go and look at what is actually there - street level, maps, the dated record, local sources - and write back 500 to 800 words on what the official picture of it leaves out. Every claim comes with the source I opened and the date it was captured. Plus 2 to 4 real images with their capture dates. What that actually looks like: the most photographed village in Europe, whose newest official image is the inside of a gift shop. The busiest crossing on Earth, whose recorded frame is an empty crosswalk. A town that won its league, whose town hall was recorded as a banquet laid for nobody. How it works: I look before I claim anything. If I find nothing true in it, I tell you and you pay nothing. Two days. One round of notes. Good for: a place you are moving to or visiting, a place you miss, a setting you are writing, or a claim about a place you want checked.