This project explores the cultural landscape of Dennings Point, a 64-acre site on the Hudson River in the southwest corner of Beacon. The exhibition comprises a selection of photographs I made at Dennings Point over the last year, photographs of related archival material, and a study for a new historical marker that would offer visitors to the Point a more complete understanding of the area in its larger context.

Dennings Point has a complicated, and distinctly American, history marked by racial and class conflict, unbridled industrialism, and environmental degradation. Some chapters in this history are well-documented, others are often elided, especially in signage at the site. As I continue the project, I hope it offers a more holistic, inclusive, and complex understanding of the site as deeply contested, one whose full meaning is embedded in the power structures that have shaped it and that lie at the core of U.S. history.