Thoughts and Works in Progress

Gas Stations

Binhammer Photographs, Photoblog, Roadside America Photo Series, Uncategorized

Gas Stations. From today's monthly newsletter, which was about 200 years of photography and social change, and then I mixed it up with gas stations. Im not quite sure why....but I did. Perhaps because Memorial Day weekend kicks off…

Destroyed and Abandoned Gas Station, Route 66

Binhammer Photographs, Photoblog, Roadside America Photo Series, Uncategorized

I don't have a big story for you about this place. It is an abandoned and destroyed gas station on Route 66, Conway, Texas. That's all I got.

Railroad through Pamunkey Lands

Binhammer Photographs, Photoblog, Scarred Places Photo Series

The railroad tracks that run through the reservation are a reminder of the effects of modernity and how the indigenous peoples have been disrespected. The tracks were first laid in 1855, across 22 acres of the Pamunkey reservation, without permission from the Pamunkey and with no compensation to the Pamunkey for this unsolicited and unwanted use of their land.

The Great Valley, Yorktown, VA

Binhammer Photographs, Photoblog, Scarred Places Photo Series

“The Great Valley,” one of the few natural openings in the marl cliffs of Yorktown. It was used as the main roadway to connect the harbor to the main street, about a city block up the hill. Slaves would be herded up the hill to the slave market on Main Street.

Yorktown Waterfront

Binhammer Photographs, Photoblog, Scarred Places Photo Series

What is: The Yorktown, Virginia waterfront, fishing pier. A Naval ship headed out to sea. What was: We mostly know of Yorktown as being the location of the last major conflict in the Revolutionary War. However, in the 18th Century Yorktown’s…

Ford Panel Delivery Truck

Binhammer Photographs, Photoblog, Roadside America Photo Series

What is: The American flag on the house and truck panels. What was: Sitting at the side of the road on route 66, todays SUV's heritage can be traced back to the panel truck, like this one. In 1917, nine years after the first Model…