Watershed

Hesperia California is the result of redlining, gentrification, and ecological capitalism. The town is located on a crumbling foundation that is built on top of the Mojave Watershed. The space within these photographs are visual documentations of the relationship between the Mojave Watershed and those living with it. I chose to shoot these photographs in black and white film to relate and reference them to the aerial photographs that I have acquired from the Water Resource Institute. These images are made into a grid format to emphasize the repetitive change within the space in a short amount of time. The images are developed with the same water from the locations they were taken, which can also be seen as aberration in the images that consist of the grids. The small aberrations in the images are the product of chemicals in the water and are representative of the living conditions of Hesperia, and are symbolic of the failing infrastructure of the local government.