2024 05 27

Middle America vibes in Vincennes, Indiana. April, 2024. © Clayton Hauck

I love simple photos like this. I could’ve spent all day photographing this little neighborhood which was full of detail — and full of stray cats!

This year, I’m going to push myself to get out into the world simply with the task of making photographs. While this image is outside of my scope, the boundaries I’ve given myself is Illinois and all of its towns, cities, farmland, countryside, and anywhere in between, but excluding Cook County (Chicago), as I’ve spent my entire life living in this county and want to explore new landscapes less familiar to me. I likely won’t be sharing images from this project here on the blog as I’m aiming to make them come together as something that exists on its own. But we’ll see. Things change and I’m already finding myself stressed about missing out on capturing early summer, as I’ve been busy working back home in Cook County. Likely, this project will span multiple years as I grow and shape a larger body of work.

Happy Memorial Day, America.

-Clayton