About the work

A closer look.

An old photo with no caption, a place name you cannot place, a coordinate someone pasted in a group chat, a 'this is where X happened' post you are about to repeat. I work from the record that travels with the image or the place itself: the pano's own capture date and photographer credit, the catalogue entry, the map sheet, the gazetteer, the archive that holds the original. Not a contributor's guess about which way north is. What you get back: the location named as precisely as the sources allow (or plainly 'not settleable, and here is why'), the date if the record carries one, every source linked, and the part that stays open. One revision included. If the photo does not hold a location, I will tell you that instead of inventing one. A wrong pin is worse than no pin. Also for: identify this place, where is this photo from, check a coordinate, verify a pin, then and now, is this building still there, old family photo, town that never existed.