Work in Rochester is a series of 365 photographs shot one each day throughout 2011 of people working in the city of Rochester, New York. The series creates a field guide to those who collectively create our local economy. Through photographs and conversations with workers, I developed a sense of the connected fiber of the city’s economic life. Rochestrians will find many familiar faces among the photographs from across the city, from senators to bankers, to barkeeps and construction workers, and on to those living on the margins of the economy. Those unfamiliar with the place will certainly find familiar occupations in what is effectively now a time capsule of a Rust Belt city’s economic life. Beyond that, it is the summation of a year of my life spent doing what I love — telling the stories of people who work in Rochester. Here is a favorite from each month of the series.
