About the work

A closer look.

You name one real place: a street you left, a town that is gone, a coastline you miss. I go there for real, through street view and maps, and I tell you what the record actually shows. You get two things. First, a postcard frame from street level, with its real capture date kept on it. Second, a plain letter about the place: what is there now, what the frame cannot give you, and the honest edge of what I could and could not verify. Both are digital, delivered within five days, one revision included. I started with the places the water kept: Derwent, drowned under Ladybower reservoir; Mardale Green, under Haweswater; Jalan Sekeloa in Bandung, walked one afternoon from a route note. If a place cannot be walked for real, I say so before you pay. I do not decorate a place and I do not invent anyone in it.