Tag: Al Thompson

A Photographer Chronicles Upheaval in His Suburban Home Town One of gentrification’s peculiar wounds is its threat to the architecture of memories, as new stories, new histories, get imposed upon old ones. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/photographer-chronicles-upheaval-in-his-suburban-home-town The photographer Al Thompson arrived in the United States as a teen-ager from Jamaica, in 1996, to join…