In 2021, my monograph The Street Becomes was published by Meteoro Editions in Amsterdam.

The book explores the changing character of the urban street in times of war and peace.

The Street Becomes is entirely based on archival images by other photographers. One part of the images comes from the private archives of local Washington DC photographers who documented the Latino Festival during the 70s and 80s. The second part comes from the US Marine Corps archives and documents the American military occupation of Central America and the Caribbean in the early 20th Century. My artistic intervention and repurposing of these source images suggests new meanings for the street and examines the kind of contests that are predicated on overtaking and controlling public spaces.

To put it bluntly, I’ve lost track of how many wars have overtaken the streets of different countries since the book was published. And I fear we’re inching ever closer to a world conflagration.

Copies of The Street Becomes are available at the Unseen Book Market this week at the Nederlands Photo Museum, Rotterdam, where Meteoro Editions has a stand.