Vanishing Pieces of Our Past

“Once Upon A Playground” is an on-going series of photographs centered on vintage playground equipment that is quickly disappearing from the American landscape. The equipment we grew up with – from towering metal slides installed in the 1940s to giant rocket ships erected in the 1970s – becomes more scarce each year as communities across the country renovate their parks and school yards. Enjoyed by generations of Americans, these vanishing artifacts of our childhoods represent a tangible piece of the country’s social and cultural history.

For the past five years, I’ve been working to create a visual document of remaining structures in their original environment and context before they are gone forever. (Many pieces of equipment featured in this portfolio have been removed and discarded since I photographed them.)

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