In tours through their neighborhoods, residents of Prospect Heights in Brooklyn and Mosswood in Oakland shared their most cherished places, as gentrification and urban development reshaped the physical and cultural landscape of the neighborhoods they know and love.
I saw making photographs of people's places as part of both respecting the time that they had already spent with me, but also as something I wanted to bring back to them.
People took me to their supermarkets or where they walked their dog, or their stoop or their church, very regular everyday places. But in the process of showing me those places, the stories people told me are often really extraordinary.
Between the stories shared by residents from opposite coasts are photo essays of the two neighborhoods. They show the beauty of everyday life, but also work as an archive of places that have disappeared.
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