Going Back
Inspiration for Going Back
I made the photographs while driving west on I-64, just as I cross the mountain and begin to descend. The scene centers on a single peak in the first viewshed to the north. I work to align it so it rises slightly above the distant ridge and the two peaks behind it. The foreground is often blurred, sometimes catching the guardrail as it passes. What stays consistent is that peak—what changes is everything else: the light, the season, the time of day, my state of mind. I photographed this view between 2017 and 2024, using various iPhones along the way.
I was born in Waynesboro, Virginia
grew up in Fisherville
and now live in Charlottesville
thirty minutes away
from my childhood home and parents
I traveled over Afton mountain
routinely to be with them as we aged
photographing the same scene
with my iPhone
through the car window