Rothsteins Hardware
2014-2018I began photographing Rothstein’s Hardware Store—my great-grandfather’s former business—when I moved to New York in 2011, trying to understand my connection to a place I had no direct relationship with before it was shuttered and sold for redevelopment. When I learned the building would be demolished to make way for a luxury condo, I printed the photographs as a newsprint poster—a material chosen for its association with immediacy. I periodically handed out these posters on Clinton Street during the demolition process, and mailed them to each apartment once it opened. Category
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