Walking
Articles related to space/place/ walking/imaging
Willful Waters
Places Journal
Los Angeles and its river have long been enmeshed in an epic struggle for control.
Into the Uncanny Valley
Places Journal
It is disconcerting when we can’t quite sort out the relationship of an image to the world.
A Map of Radical Bewilderment
Places Journal
Forget his reputation as a nature writer. Henry David Thoreau was also a highly trained, well regarded, disciplined though eccentric land surveyor.
Mythologies of Placemaking
Places Journal
Designers and planners talk about “sense of place,” but this murky buzzword often serves to rally support for redevelopment projects that ignore deep patterns of local culture.
Cloud and Field
Places Journal
On the resurgence of “field guides” in a networked age. We’ve moved from birding to dronewatching, from natural history to dark ecology. But are we still looking through colonialist binoculars?
The Photographer and Architecture
Places Journal
Photography is a ship carrying light and space and heading toward the future.
Survey to Surveillance
Places Journal
The U.S.-Mexico border is not a line on the ground, but a network diagram drawn through bodies and databases.
Elegy in Three Plagues
Places Journal
Viral spread, racist prejudice, and a presidency premised on lies and violence: The antithesis to these plagues is the backyard as birding preserve.
Nightrise
Places Journal
A month-long journey, on foot, across southern Lebanon reveals complex nocturnal cultures, from farmers watering crops by moonlight to refugees scanning the skies for surveillance planes.
The Velvet Coffin
Places Journal
At this moment in national and world history, an empty cemetery felt correct as public space.
A Situation: A Tree in Palestine
Places Journal
A story about reckoning with a public secret that doesn’t want to be kept anymore.
The Half-Life of History
Places Journal
A writer and photographer document the ruined military base where the U.S. Air Force trained for the bombing of Hiroshima.
The Black Pearl
Places Journal
Birding in Atlantic Beach, South Carolina, on the edge of Black history and Black what-might-yet-be.