I have spent years photographing San José and San Francisco by walking their streets and returning to the same neighborhoods over time. The photographs are less about collecting landmarks than about noticing how a city reveals itself block by block: storefronts, signs, corner buildings, houses, transit, murals, commercial strips, public spaces, construction, demolition, and the ordinary details that make one street different from another.

Some photographs begin as simple observations and become historical records later. A familiar business closes. A building disappears. A corner is rebuilt. A neighborhood changes around something that remains. Returning to these places has become one of the central ways I photograph cities—looking closely at what is there now while building an archive that gains meaning as the years pass.

This project brings together the San José and San Francisco work as one connected body of photographs, while keeping the individual street and neighborhood galleries intact.