Nothing Stays (the same)

For this project, I wanted to reduce photography to its pure documentary function. After I found a spot and set up my camera on a tripod, I turned around so I was facing away from the camera and what the camera was seeing. Then, with a remote shutter release, I took 5 photos in each location at regular intervals. The resulting photos, which I stacked on top of each other in photoshop, represent a sort-of portrait of a community; a visual accumulation of data about car and foot traffic and weather conditions and the life of a town. Taken in March 2022, two years after the first COVID-related lockdowns swept the US, these photos also tell the story of a town, state, and country still grappling with the effects of the disruptions, and illuminate the point the town has reached on its path back to normalcy.