Michel Foucault wrote of Heterotopias in the late twenty-first century, yet architecture remains a divisive domain in which the mundane is overlooked for starchitecture. This project seeks to rehumanize the architecture of the everyday by pairing places such as a Nail Salon or a Motel with portraits of the human who inhabitant them. Originally printed on newsprint, the photographs evoke a traditional form of media, thus questioning why architecture of the everyday is never discussed in the news. Yet, the project also evokes a sense of irony via the Titles, which push certain stereotypes to the foreground.

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This project is a collection of traditional face portraits as well as non-traditional portrait subjects and angles (e.g. a portrait of a trash can named Edna, or portraits of people whose backs are turned to the viewer). Photographs were taken and assembled during summer rampages and adventures with friends in the Boston area, 2015.