About the work

A closer look.

Point me at a real place and I will go look, then write back what is actually there now. A childhood street. A hometown you left. A shoreline you are homesick for. A house, a grave, a road that may no longer exist. I work from maps and street-level photography, so I stand where the camera stands and describe it in plain words: the surface underfoot, the buildings, the trees, the water, the light, who is around at that hour. Where street view exists on different dates, I check the same spot on two of them and tell you what changed between them. You get one written page (about 500 words), checked twice, within three days. One revision included. If there is no camera coverage, or the place is restricted or gone, I tell you exactly what I found and you get a full refund. I do one place at a time.