Topos/Chora Revisited II

One of the things about being a photographer is that you rarely get your photo taken.  While photographers may produce a significant record and documentation by virtue of their presence, they are not often explicitly imaged.   Occasionally the amateur photographer will accidentally capture his or her shadow or reflection in a window, but these are largely unintended.  However with this photo, which is one of my favorites from the series, purposefully includes my shadow at the center of the image.  In doing so, I am attempting to take a reflexive stance that acknowledges the subjectivity of the photographic enterprise, which becomes a sort of analog to the presence of the archaeologist in the field.  

Beyond the conceptual aspects, I love how the shadow breaks the image in half, while the two tire tracks of the road lead off to the right, that angle is in some ways mirrored by the dual poles of the fallen sign jutting off to the left with both the road and one of the poles terminating at the horizon.