Calumet area vision

Calumet area vision

During 2005-08, I led a non-profit environmental organization in the industrial Lake Calumet area. The area is covered with huge brown fields left by the disappearance of steel making two decades before. It’s interspersed with slag and degraded marsh lands. The...
Images of Calumet

Images of Calumet

In 2007 I was director of a small environmental advocacy organization in Chicago. In early spring that year, friend Greg Lochow and I set out to make a couple short films about the city’s southeast side, known to be part of the broader Calumet region. One film...