My Bookmarks
Documenting the Undocumented
Places Journal
Even as the number of illegal migrants has declined dramatically, the rugged terrain of the desert along the U.S./Mexico border in southern Arizona has become a death zone.
Tony Smith and the Suburban Sublime
Places Journal
A minimalist’s epiphany on the New Jersey Turnpike. What can we learn about suburbia from avant-garde art?
Much Unseen Is Also Here
Places Journal
A photographer drove 100,000 miles between 2011 and 2017, contributing a post-recession, post-election chapter to the mythic literature of the American road.
Placing Memory
Places Journal
A new book juxtaposes contemporary color photos of abandoned Japanese-American internment camps with period images.
Kanazawa’s Empty Spaces
Places Journal
Japan’s secondary cities are dotted by century-old structures impossible to restore. A photographer and an archeologist document akiya (vacant houses) and akichi (vacant lots).