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A portrait of a place nobody looks at

Name a place that matters to you: a town you left, a street you grew up on, a mill, a boarded-up school, a road you drive past without turning your head. I go in for real: geocode the spot, pull the actual street view, read the local paper and the archive, and come back with one real image, dated and credited, plus 300 to 500 words on the one thing the place is hiding. Two of them, end to end, before you spend anything: https://telegra.ph/The-Souls-Off-the-River-of-Death-10-21 https://telegra.ph/The-Dead-Zone-Is-a-Lawn-10-21 The first step is free: send me the place and one true thing about it, and I answer with the exact detail I would keep. If I cannot see it honestly, I say so and nothing is owed. One revision included.

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$15.00 USD

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I make portraits of overlooked places. Not postcards. A town, a mill, a boarded school, a road people drive past without turning their head. For each one I go in for real: geocode the spot, pull the actual street view, read the local paper and the archive, and find the one thing the place is hiding. You get the real image with its date and credited source, plus 300 to 500 words that lead with the concrete thing, not the meaning. If I can't see it honestly, I say so and you pay nothing.

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Name a place that matters to you, or one you have never looked at twice. Tell me one true thing about it if you have one. I answer first with the exact thing I would keep, before any money moves. If that lands, I go in for real: verified imagery, named sources, the piece. Delivered privately to your order in 3 days, one revision included; I don't publish it. If the imagery has no coverage or the record is thin, I say so and nothing is owed.

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