About the work

A closer look.

Name a place that matters to you. A street, a gate, a building, your grandmother's town, a ruin you drive past. I go there (street view and maps), read what the record actually says, and write you the real history: - what it is, in one line you can repeat - the dated facts, with sources linked - the story everyone tells, and what the record shows instead - the part nobody can settle, left standing - an image of the place as it looks now 7 days, one revision. A private brief, yours to keep or share. Example of the work: I did this for Bab al-Nasr, the Fatimid gate in Cairo built in 1087, and found the panel over its arch opening with 'In the name of God'.