Jan 17 - Take off!

And here we go….!

For the next 4 months, Joey and I will be traveling the path outlined on our map to photograph cities included in The Yellow Book.

The Yellow Book is a nickname given to the General Location of National System of Interstate Highways 1955. This book was used as an outline for where interstates were to be built in every city with a population of over 50,000 people in the United States - 104 cities in total. I am photographing each of these cities to create a survey of the consequences of the interstate highway system. Many cities used them to reinstate racial divides after desegregation, many built them directly through thriving Black communities. Some cities successfully stopped the building of highways to protect their parks. Others have now gentrified becoming sought-out neighborhoods due to close proximities to downtowns.

I’ll be photographing each city looking at where the interstate was placed, and how it affected the community it was built through. I’ll be posting updates here on the trip, photographs of my project in process, and what we learn as we go.