This time is just fine as it is.

During my latest trip back to Ohio I went on excursions to document the town I had not returned to in 40 years. Neighborhoods were less affluent, most companies like General Motors, Champion Papers, had left and the jobs gone. Now years abandoned, Hamilton was left a poverty belt, a drug belt and a true rust belt and in continued decline. Movie theaters had become muffler shops, TV repair outlets and then a church, and now vacant. I still however have a fondness for all the places, roads, and late night cruises that had been my youth for 15 years. This is an ongoing project on family, a hometown and middle America. “The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.” ― Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red