Prime Location (2025 - In Process)

New e-commerce warehouse construction is rapidly reshaping the landscape. Built at the edges of communities, these vast distribution and fulfillment centers replace farmland and open fields with the infrastructure of instant consumption. Their repetitive, cookie-cutter exteriors form a new architectural vernacular—banal yet monumental—engineered for efficiency and anonymity as they quietly redefine the terrain. They have become symbols of our shift from physical storefronts to the architecture of digital commerce

Prime Location comprises two interrelated bodies of work documenting this shift in land use while acknowledging photography’s lineage of industrial architecture. The first is a series of typological studies of warehouse façades that highlight their uniformity and ubiquity. The second pairs my contemporary photographs of newly built warehouses with earlier Google Street View images made only a few months or years before. Together, these works reveal the accelerating transformation of the landscape—how fertile fields and open spaces are swiftly recast as industrial fortresses.

In confronting the paradox of convenience and its costs, the project reflects on altered landscapes, displaced memory, and communities left with structures offering no gathering place, only transaction. Their silence and repetition hint at the cultural trade-offs of instant consumption—an architecture of emptiness built for logistical ease at the expense of connection and a sense of place.