The five photographs are part of project that explores the impact of retail development on community landscapes across the country. The images take viewers on a cross-country journey, and, in a sense, force you to stop your car and see a landscape built for automobiles from a pedestrian’s point of view. It is my hope the retail landscape photographs will engage viewer’s imaginations in a way the physical retail landscapes simply do not and challenge their notions about community. Are retail landscapes becoming a new standard for what is beautiful in our communities? Are they distorting our expectations of what a community should be? Do they devalue our relationship to the natural landscapes in the places we live?
