East Boston studies

I often find it hard to resist photographing urban landscapes. Recently I have been exploring the neighborhood of East Boston, located just across Boston harbor from downtown Boston, connected by a subway line, two tunnels but still psychologically separated from the rest of the city by this natural barrier.

The neighborhood is also the site of my studio and thus easily at my disposal for exploring some of the more formal qualities of urban landscape. This exploration has ultimately been leading me to focus on places where nature and urban space seem to collide. East Boston has several new- and quite well designed- parks that have opened in the past few years but still remains pockmarked with abandoned lots and fenced off docks that crookedly lead towards the water.

The downtown skyline is also a prominent feature of the neighborhood, looming in the near distance as a reminder that it is part of a larger metropolis. Both of these things- the collision of nature and urban space, and the downtown skyline- feature prominently in these images.