Approaching Nowhere: Photographs by Jeff Brouws

A beautiful meditation on neglected landscapes and built environments. With a decade or two between us and Brouws’s photos, it’s interesting to consider the locations in Approaching Nowhere that have since begun to gentrify. Does that alter or lessen the poignancy of his thesis? I don’t think so. Rather, I’d argue it just leads to new possibilities for reexamining the places and ideas that Brouws introduced us to in the first place.