Right Where You Left Me

Time has an interesting way of manifesting itself through images, it allows for a moment to freeze and can stretch time within the image. This project looks to show and be an example of how much a place can change over time through images and portraits of a space that has been left behind by the people who once called it home. It follows Fort Hancock, New Jersey, which was once a place used by hundreds as a military base to protect New York harbor in the 1800s; was then transformed into a small army town with a firehouse, a movie theater, a bakery, a car wash, and a church in the early 1900s. After its deactivation date in 1974, the space was left to the National Park Service and deemed a part of the Sandy Hook Unit of the Gateway National Recreation Area.