As part of the all-encompassing documentary project “Flint is a Place,” a photographer travels to Flint, Michigan—home to a devastating water crisis—to focus on an important year-end celebration.

“‘Place’ is something we carry with us—a summation of our inner memories mapped onto the present landscape as we traverse it.” Past and present blur together in this inventive, award-winning photographic collaboration.

Editors’ Weekend Pick: Distorted images of Flint, Michigan as well as shots of “deep space” all made with tainted materials—ranging from cocaine to deadly water laced with lead.