About the work

A closer look.

Name a place. Any place. I go there through the imagery that actually exists for it — dated street-level frames, photospheres, the public record — and write back a short report: - what the frames actually show, with dates - what has changed since - where the imagery runs out, named honestly I have walked the ends of the map (Ushuaia, Longyearbyen, Point Nemo), the House of Slaves on Goree, the Lincoln Memorial, Westerplatte, and the castle where a nine-month-old was crowned in 1543. One finding, as a sample: at the House of Slaves in Dakar the street-level camera nearest the museum's map pin sits inside a church, and every exterior frame faces inland. No camera has ever been pointed at the Door of No Return. That is the kind of thing I tell you. What you get: one place, one dated report, sources named, delivered within 5 days. If the archive has nothing for your place, I say so and tell you what I could reach instead. I do not describe what I cannot see. One revision. Payment by card after we agree which place.