At Work on Central Avenue

I made these photographs as I walked the 16 miles of Central Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona. The sequence starts in a rapidly gentrifying mid-town, following Central due south as it cuts through glassy downtown before dipping under Jackson Street and into the historically Black and Latino neighbourhoods of South Phoenix. The work explores the forms of life that a city makes possible, the relationships created between individuals and the built environment, and how the continuity implied by a road obscures the uneven constraints a city contains.