From 2013 to 2015 I split my time between Cambridge, Massachusetts and Chicago. Rather than work on a major project in the Boston area, I mainly used my time there to write my dissertation and focus other projects, including organizing and editing my work for Affordable Housing in New York and the Telescope Houses of Buffalo, New York. Even so, I did produce a small photographic series about modernist buildings, wandered around in the greatest snowfall in the city’s history, and made a little work that helped me enjoy some of the differences between New England and Midwestern cities.
The following photographs are a loose assortment from those mini-projects. The above image pulls from the dozens of photographs I made from the apartment window. MIT’s Briggs Field commands the foreground, with the rest of the campus, the Charles River, and Boston beyond.
Walking home through the Allston neighborhood
Josep Lluís Sert’s Peabody Terrace in context
Forth of July along the Charles River
Cambridge in the snow
The landmarked [pdf] Shell Oil Company “Spectacular” sign in Cambridge
St Augustine’s African Orthodox Pro-Cathedral in Cambridge. The denomination was founded in Chicago in 1921 and has an intriguing history, including links to Marcus Garvey.
In the fall, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus rolls into the Boston area and sides in Cambridge tracks.
A view of the Boston skyline from across the harbor in Jeffries Point
Providence-based What Cheer? in a Honk Fest parking garage
Three photographs from a small project on Cambridgeport, a low-density Cambridge neighborhood that’s being rapidly densified
Boston’s Government Service Center at dusk
Eero Sarrinen’s MIT Chapel and a peculiar Allston residential building
Perhaps the brashest (and ugliest) building addition I’ve ever seen
A view of the Boston’s layered skyline from North End Park