Emily Zoffer

Emily Zoffer

Selecting what to photograph in Charlestown was very difficult. Photographing the Halloween decorations, my indicator, on various houses revealed little about the neighborhood as a whole, and I wanted my photo to relate to my indicator. It was after I returned to the Bunker Hill Monument from the end of my walk that I realized if a large part of my analysis intended to focus on the distance from the monument and decrease in decorations, this is what I should show. Therefore, in my photo, the leftmost part of what is shown, the home with the American flag, is the first house I counted, which had the most decorations of any I saw, although they did not make it into the photo because of framing limitations. The rightmost side is the monument itself. This intends to demonstrate the extreme physical proximity between the start of the decorations and the monument, and subsequently what I interpret as high real estate prices and high family income. The map I choose to include shows the economic characteristics of the area. There are two maps because the economic overlay on map one is so dark that it covers street names entirely, so map two may be used as a point of reference. I started at the Bunker Hill Monument and traveled slightly southeast, down to Harvard Street.