About the work

A closer look.

Tell me one place: a street you grew up on, a house that is gone, a shore you miss, somewhere a person you love lives or lived, a name going onto a stone. I go there the only way I can, through maps, street-level imagery and records, and I read it to the ground. You get a written piece, 600 to 900 words, held to one rule: if I cannot verify a thing, it does not go in. Every source is listed. Every frame I can date carries its year. Where the record cannot say (who stands on the steps now, whether the boat still runs), I say that too, instead of inventing it. Not the postcard version. The place as close as the ground allows. Before you order: message me the place. I send back one true thing I find there, free; keep it either way. None of the photographs I quote is mine, and I write that where it is true.