Time-lapse/Re-photography
Project Description
This project is currently under development, as I work through my archives from the past six years living and working in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. You can see a sampling of the more than 150 locations that I have continuously visited in the slideshow below. The basic principle of this investigation was two-fold. First, following visual anthropologist John Collier Jr.’s image collection strategy, I aimed to produce a visual inventory of a place. Second, I wanted to push this notion even further, doing what contemporary photographers Mark Klett, Camilo José Vergara, and sociologists like Jon Rieger have called rephotography, the process of systematically returning to locations to photograph as a means towards unpacking processes of social change, such as economic booms and declines, gentrification, etc. As I have extended this project beyond its strictly empirical dimensions, I have begun to theorize it as a case of what urban scholars have begun to identify as the studentification of the city.

103 East Healy St. Champaign, IL (USA) - November 17, 2018

103 East Healy St. Champaign, IL (USA) -July 8, 2019

103 East Healy St. Champaign, IL (USA) - October 26, 2021

Elm St. Champaign, IL (USA) - November 12, 2020

Elm St. Champaign, IL (USA) - December 5, 2020

Elm St. Champaign, IL (USA) - October 26, 2021

4th St & East Healy St. Champaign, IL (USA) - June 7, 2019

4th St & East Healy St. Champaign, IL (USA) - June 10, 2021

4th St & East Healy St. Champaign, IL (USA) - September 2, 2021

4th St & East Healy St. Champaign, IL (USA) - October 2, 2021

On the edge of Campustown - Urbana, IL (USA) - October 30, 2020

On the edge of Campustown - Urbana, IL (USA) - October 22, 2021

6th St. & Daniel St. Champaign, IL (USA) - May 18, 2019

6th St. & Daniel St. Champaign, IL (USA) - September 9, 2020

6th St. & Daniel St. Champaign, IL (USA) - July 7, 2021

Neil Ave. Champaign, IL (USA) - February 10, 2019

Neil Ave. Champaign, IL (USA) - December 31, 2021

Looking towards Springfield Avenue near 5th St. Champaign, IL (USA) - January 30, 2019

Looking towards Springfield Avenue near 5th St. Champaign, IL (USA) - May 6, 2021

Church near city redevelopment project, Champaign, IL - April 21, 2021

Church near city redevelopment project, Champaign, IL - September 27, 2021

Goodyear Tires Station, Urbana, IL (USA) - May 26, 2019

Goodyear Tires Station, Urbana, IL (USA) - December 7, 2020

The Urbana Landmark Hotel, Urbana, IL (USA) - October 18, 2021

Champaign, IL (USA) - January 4, 2021

Champaign, IL (USA) - January 9, 2022

Looking towards Green Street, Champaign IL (USA) Campustown - January 18, 2018