Constructed Places
Constructed Places is a visual investigation into how places are understood when direct experience is replaced by images, and how image-making systems shape that understanding.
Each location in the project is presented as a fixed visual sequence of three images:
– a historical color photograph by Stephen Shore
– a contemporary view of the same place captured through Google Street View
– an AI-generated image produced from visual data and photographic conventions
The sequence is always the same.
The images are not individually labelled.
Rather than documenting change, the project explores how places persist as visual constructs: recognized through repetition, approximation and visual memory, even when accuracy, authorship and point of view begin to shift.
Constructed Places brings together historical photography, digital mapping and AI-generated images to reflect on how places are increasingly known through mediated and partial visual information.
Rather than producing accurate reconstructions, the project presents a series of plausible visual hypotheses, where continuity and uncertainty coexist.
Places remain recognizable, yet never fully stable: shaped by time, systems and the images that stand in for experience.