2025 04 25

Ricoh warehouse. Chicagoland area. March, 2025. © Clayton Hauck

Recently, I found where my camera comes from! It’s a nondescript warehouse building in the Chicago exubrs, set among a sea of other nondescript warehouse buildings.

Actually, the camera was born in Asia, packaged, put onto a truck, then placed onto a uniform container box, stacked onto a massive boat, sailed around the world, landed in Long Beach, unloaded onto a truck, placed onto a train, moved across the country, unloaded in a nondescript Chicago depot, placed onto another truck, driven into the warehouse, inventoried, placed onto yet another truck, driven to a camera shop in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood, and purchased by myself, where it then walked it home, placed into my pocket and eventually made this image.

-Clayton