Back Alley
This series explores a most curious landscape - the backyards of my neighbors in Albuquerque, NM. Before moving there, I had lived my entire adult life in major cities. I viewed outdoor space as a precious commodity, and one very rarely private. There, in my downtown neighborhood in Albuquerque, the streets were arranged in a grid, with service alleys running behind the houses. The private backyards of the homes were open to me, the casual stroller, accessed through these the back alleys. Fences and walls separate, define, and protect each space, but each rear view, even those completely obscured by high walls, shows an intimate side of each house’s occupants, one perhaps not meant to be seen. Treading the uncertain line between the public and the private, peeking through cracks in fences and over walls, I found a new world waiting to be explored.