A Valley In Flux

[photography, silicon valley]

San José and the Silicon Valley at large is a study in contrasts:
orchards next to high-tech, a downtown that became a mall that went
server-farm, a car dealer that became a mall *and* a down-town.

Angela Buenning is a photographer who keeps a well-trained eye on all
of these things and more.

*For me Silicon Valley is at the same time both an intensely personal
and iconic place, my home as well as a strange and foreign land. Made
over the past four years of boom and bust, together these photographs
tell the story of a specific moment in the history of this region.
They are, in part, an attempt to grab a fleeting instant, a
disappearing geography. But they are not made out of a longing for
what used to be. Instead, these images are created with an eye to the
future, to a landscape that might be. They are meant neither to
glorify Silicon Valley’s innovations, nor to condemn its excesses,
but simply to point out the choices we made along the way. Some
believe Silicon Valley is a model to be replicated. Others think that
it is a warning we must heed. Above all, it shows us the future, and
in doing so gives each of us a chance to decide.*

http://www.angelabuenning.com/