“Postcard Survey”, 2022
In 2021, I began to collect postcards from all over Illinois. What was at first an innocent hobby soon turned into a curiosity to document the change I saw when visiting the postcards’ subjects in person. The process involved finding the initial photographs in antique stores and at estate sales, researching the landmarks or locations, and then revisiting and rephotographing the postcards as closely as possible to the original. Any postcards’ backs that have letters written on them are documented as well in order to date the postcard. What results is a continuing photographic survery of the everchanging landscape of the state.
