of her career documenting lives of the homeless in NYC. She found an undeniable need for nesting in abandoned buildings or railway tunnels among actual, cohesive communities of people who otherwise had no physical "homes".

It got me thinking about how gentrification and urban development have for decades upon decades done away with either entire residential neighborhoods or historical buildings and other physical elements of our worlds. Places where we met to work, to eat, to be entertained, to birth, to die.

Since 1984, I've shot so many business parks, warehouses, office buildings and other areas of healthcare and commerce in the CLT region - many of these multiple times to the degree that saplings first planted outside them are vast trees obscuring any view of the buildings now.

Countless numbers of these structures are coming down as the city grows. Many really good, important, interesting places disappear without so much as a farewell.

And yet we want to preserve our monuments of people. We really are an arrogant species.