Houses in my neighborhood
As promised, I started on my journey to collect houses in my neighborhood last week. During my shoot I had a couple of interesting experiences. The first was with the woman across the street. As I began photographing her house I didn't notice that she was hanging out of her window, which she often does on warm days. I am strangely convinced that she might enjoy the power of "yelling" conversations from above, just as this thought popped into my head, she yelled down at me, "Why are you taking pictures of my house?" I was caught off guard, no one was supposed to care or notice me doing this. I answered her by explaining that I was documenting the architecture of the street, she accepted, with an "oh, ok" and I continued. This quick interaction made me feel as if I was invading the privacy of these very public brick and wood hundred year old houses and I became intimate with the details of the homes using my zoom lens. I proceeded down the street house by house taking photos and increasingly became more nervous that people would wonder why I was photographing their houses, too.
With this project I found myself looking at each house in a different way than I had before and realizing little details. One house, right across the street looks generally uninhabited but that day I saw a glimpse of humanity inside the cracked blinds. If you are like me, I look for any reason to start making up a story about who might be inside and why they are seemingly "hiding". My favorite house of the shoot is the one that you can't quite see because it is hiding behind 2 very large cedar trees. It is like a person who desperately needs a hair cut! You can view the houses on our flickr page...
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