Mapping & Results
There is a dedicated effort to document cities through the use of panoramic technology like Google Street maps, but more often than not, the quality of the images from these sites pales in comparison to photographs from the 20th century to early 2000s. Despite being older, film often carries more detail and natural artistic quality than digital cameras. Besides the quality of film, we also used it because the negatives can be stored for quite a long time (1,000 years to be exact) making them a powerful archival medium.
Below is a map of each photographer’s work. Across the team there were a total of 9 photographers who managed to turn in 149 photographs to be geotagged in time for the project’s spring closure. Among each photographer there was a general trend of sticking to a few areas around the city, a reflection of where they live, work and spend free time. Through each photographer a unique sense of exactly what “displacement” looks like in each neighborhood began to form that is visible in the work they produced.