Boston Photography CenterNeighborhood Project |
The Neighborhood Project is a collaborative project by photographers who are members of the Boston Photography Center. To our knowledge, this is the first time that a collaborative project of many Boston neighborhoods has been undertaken. The purpose is to record, with documentary photographs, the unique aspects of each neighborhood, incorporating the residents' views and experiences when possible.
Some themes used as unifying concepts are the historic architecture of Roxbury; the community groups of Dorchester; both young, new residents and longtime dwellers of Charlestown; volunteer groups of Dorchester; the downtown businesses of Roslindale, and the social groups of people who live in the North End..
As the project continues in 2009, we hope to shoot all the neighborhoods of Boston, to record what is unique and true about each of our city's "villages."