Phoenix is the fifth-largest city in the United States and still growing. Some of what I have photographed no longer exists, and that has happened in a short span of years. I am influenced by the work of Eugène Atget when he photographed Paris in the early twentieth century. I hope this work gives a later generation a viewpoint — what it was to live here, and what the streets looked like while they still looked like this.
I started photographing Phoenix in the spring of 2001. Since then I have recorded over 8,000 images of the city. I keep going back to the same corners because something has been torn down and something else is going up. I have mixed emotions about that. The city is so large that I feel I have only captured a small part of it, but I do not know anyone else who has as large a collection of Phoenix, and it is still growing.
Tempe is where the documentation started — a class assignment on Mill. The light rail, Mesa, Scottsdale, and Glendale are their own walks because they are. This page is Phoenix proper: streets that sometimes no longer exist, and the ones that are about to change. The prints are below.