The American West is still expanding, but at what cost? In his acclaimed book from 1974, "The New West," the photographer Robert Adams documented the anarchic suburban development from Wyoming to New Mexico: “building is monotonous, and life inside is frozen by anonymity and loneliness.” In this series of medium format photos taken with a Rolleiflex camera, I photograph the rapid changes occurring at the frontiers of suburban landscapes in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. I use Kodak Portra 400 films to magnify my subject’s natural and smooth colors. I document fields receding to be replaced by charmless but highly profitable gated constructions. Is this what we want to call home?

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