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Change of plans this winter we are going to Texas! We will grab 25+ photos along this route! Can’t wait!

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June has been a good month for The Shore Project, along with being awarded the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, I was recently selected as a Blanche E. Colman Award recipient. Excited, honored, and motivated to hit the road this winter break. I’ve started mapping out our winter Florida road trip and it’s going to be a good one!! In the meantime I’ll be grabbing the last few local New England locations this summer. Thanks to the MCC and the Colman Arts Committee for the support to keep this project going! #theshoreproject #stephenshore #brittanymarcoux #mccfellow2017 #blancheecolmanaward #travelplans #floridabound #winterbreak #roadtrip #rephotography #uncommonplaces

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Portfolio for The Shore Project complete! Diptychs of all the locations I have found so far (about 62), Two maps from our longest road trips with ephemera collages on the back, and a stack of snapshot postcards from the road. A HUGE thank you to @iolabs for helping me create and produce this portfolio, you guys are the best! 🙌📸💘🤓 #theshoreproject #portfolio #inprogress #iolabs #eastprovidence #bestprinters #fineartprinting #stephenshore #brittanymarcoux #portfoliobox #archival #maps #roadtrip #postcards #rephotography

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Shore’s self portrait on the left from March 20th 1976, he was 29 years old in a New York City apartment. Somehow I missed taking this photo last year, probably because I was in the midst of thesis chaos and finishing up my MFA at MassArt. It would have been exactly 40 years later, and I also would have been 29 years old. Sometimes you just miss the mark. Here I am 41 years later and a year older onMarch 20th, 2017 in Swansea, Massachusetts. #theshoreproject #brittanymarcoux #stephenshore #uncommonplaces #rephotography #rephotographyproject #selfportrait #41yearslater #swanseama #apartments

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Snow day here in MA, great day for spreadsheets and file management 😜❄️😫 #theshoreproject #gottadoit #snowstormduties #spreadsheets #organizingfiles

Market Street, San Francisco, California

Left: Shore’s shot from 1974

Right: My shot from 2017

We ended our west coat road trip meeting up with great friends in San Francisco, which was helpful to have them around for finding this location...more hands on deck! Never a bad thing. This shot was pretty simple to find, as I knew it would be...buildings just don’t change too often, or if they do...they only get bigger! As you can see here, from 1974 to 2017...everything got just a little bit taller in downtown SF.

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Fifth Street and Broadway, Eureka, California

Left: Shore’s shot from 1974

Right: My shot from 2017

Eureka, California was a particularly draining shot to find. We had been on the road for almost 12 hours the day before, trekking our way across the Shasta-Trinity National forest on Route 36. While we were on this road trip, the west coast from WA to Northern CA had just been hit with it's worst weather in about 15 years...and route 36 was really showing us those effects. At about 10pm, we doubted if were even going to make it off the mountain...we were on muddy roads, trees and guard rails wiped out by mud slides...oh, and about to run out of gas with no cell service. I will spare you all the details for now, but we finally made it to Eureka around 1am and got a quick night's rest at a Motel 6.

In the morning we set out to find our location. Finding the site was easy since Shore gave the names of the two cross streets in his title, finding the right angle was another story. When we got to our location, we knew Shore was elevated, looking down on the restaurant parking lot. We found stairs that led us up to a balcony of the neighboring Best Western. Issue #1: At 8:00am, the balcony windows were all fogged over, we could not see a thing (see photo above). We decided to grab some breakfast at Kristina's (formerly and inappropriately called Sambo's in Shore's 1974 shot, read this article to learn more about the rise and fall of Sambo's restaurants: Sambo's: The Racist Restaurant Chain America Once Loved). After breakfast we checked back in and all was clear. Issue #2: There was a big roof blocking the exact angle I needed, hence the big brown roof at the bottom of my shot. I was able to grab enough of the scene, but with the windows and the roof obstructing my view I was over all not pleased with the way this location turned out. There were a few things that remained the same in this scene, but over all lots of changes (some we can be thankful for).

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...I spent a while creating the portrait exactly as Shore set-up his, but after awhile Rick said, "OK now let's just be us!"...this ended up being the portrait I chose, after all they are the Villarreals, not the Wehryls...

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…I spent a while creating the portrait exactly as Shore set-up his, but after awhile Rick said, “OK now let’s just be us!”…this ended up being the portrait I chose, after all they are the Villarreals, not the Wehryls…

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Coos Bay, Oregon

Left: Shore’s shot of Robert and Lucille Wehrly, August 31st, 1974

Right: My shot of Rick and Donna Villarreal, January 14th, 2017

I did alot of research leading up to going to Coos Bay, Oregon. I wondered a lot about the Wehrlys, which I knew had to have passed considering the time span between Shore’s trip and mine…but, I wondered about them, did they have family still in Coos Bay? Should I find them and show them the book? Should I find the local cemetery and search for their graves? Was that inappropriate and invasive? I thought so. I gave up my research about the Wehrlys and decided I would go out and find a couple that looked like Robert and Lucille roaming about in Coos Bay.

The night we travelled into Coos Bay it was late, we were tired and hungry and looking for a cheap night’s rest to start our Wehrly doppelgänger search early in the morning. We landed upon a small hotel called the Itty Bitty Inn in the next town over from Coos Bay, North Bend, OR. The minute we arrived we new we made the right hotel choice: we had the disco room with a working Atari set, we were given oatmeal and tea for the morning and advice on a local pub for dinner (owned by a Bostonian!), and the Itty Bitty Inn owners were amazing! They were the kind of people you could sit down with and talk with for hours. We told them about our project and showed them Shore’s Uncommon Places. They excitedly ask questions, made comments, and told us they had the perfect couple for us to photograph in the morning, a guy who wears suspenders and all! I went to bed excited to meet this suspendered man and his wife in the morning.

The next day, I had an epiphany in the shower (always in the shower). I read in an interview that Shore photographed the Wehrlys because he was in their neighborhood photographing their house, he started talking with them and after a while decided to take their photograph instead. It was probably the conversation that made him want to take their photograph first and then maybe he was drawn to Robert’s dark suspenders and Lucille’s colorful floral shirt. I decided at that moment that I did not need to find Wehrly look-a-like’s….I needed to photograph a couple that I had a connection with. Rick and Donna Villarreal, owners of the Itty Bitty Inn, were this couple.

I spent a while creating the portrait exactly as Shore set-up his, but after awhile Rick said, “OK now let’s just be us!”…this ended up being the portrait I chose, after all they are the Villarreals, not the Wehryls.

Rick and Donna…thank you both for making us feel right at home and for being part of this project! If anyone is traveling in the Coos Bay area, stay at the Itty Bitty Inn in North Bend, you will love it!

U.S. 97, South of Klamath Falls, Oregon

Left: Shore’s shot from July 21, 1973

Right: My shot from January 14, 2017

Back from vacation for a while and back to editing (which I am still very behind on from the summer). We are in for a big snow storm here in New England, so I am hoping to get lots done over the next couple of days!

This location was the one I was most looking forward to. It has always been one of my favorite Shore photographs and I knew it was sure to be a gamble with that amazing billboard. Sure enough, it was gone. We were there in January with a few inches of snow covering the ground...remnants of that billboards could have been hiding underneath, but it is highly doubtful. Due to the disappearing billboard, it made this shot a little bit harder to find, but we did it! We drove back and forth a couple of times on US 97...knowing very well that Shore was traveling South, and looked North into his rear view mirror to find this scene. With Brian driving South, I hopped in the back seat and eagerly scanned the landscape out of the back window. I first used the size of the mountains to get an accurate distance. I knew there were some buildings in the background of Shore’s photographs so we searched for those (see image above) and found them...we then knew we were in the right spot! Lastly, we looked for a gate, never expecting to find it...but there it was with snow and tall winter grass all around it. Klamath Falls = success!

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Sometimes you gotta stand in the middle of a super busy street in downtown SF in order to get the right angle… 😳🤙📸 #theshoreproject #uncommonplaces #marketstreet #sanfrancisco #lastday #sf #downtown #dangerous #itsallabouttheangle #stephenshore #brittanymarcoux

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And just like that we found our last location of the trip on Market Street in downtown SF! Heading back to the east coast tonight…I’ve got a lot of editing to do…stay tuned! #marketstreet #downtown #sf #sanfrancisco #theshoreproject #lastday (at Market Street (San Francisco))

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We arrived at the hotel balcony in Eureka, CA to get the iconic cover photo of Uncommon Places. The balcony windows were all fogged over so we had to wait an hour or so, hence the large waffle in front of me. The sun came up, cleared the windows, and we got our shot! Onward to San Francisco ✌️🚗🥞🥓🌅 #coverimage #uncommonplaces #eurekacalifornia #eureka #theshoreproject #breakfast #kristinas #rephotographing #roadtrip (at Kristinas Restaurant)

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IT’S GONEEE 👎😥 I mean, let’s be honest…I knew this was going to happen, but a small part of me was hopeful that somethingggg from the billboard would be left behind. Whatever little bit that might remain is probably covered by snow. But, hey we found the location…and the gate, fence, power lines, industrial buildings in the background, and the mountains (of course) are still there. I still count this as a success, and a fun one to find! #myfavorite #theshoreproject #uncommonplaces #stephenshore #brittanymarcoux #billboard #klamathfalls #us97 #oregon #winterroadtrip #toughone #southofklamath (at Klamath Falls, Oregon)

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Driving down the Oregon Coast on the 101 to Coos Bay today…absolutely stunning!! 🙌🏞 #roadtrip #oregoncoast #theshoreproject #pacificcoast #westcoastroadtrip (at Hwy 101)

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