Progress; to move forward or onward in space or time.

Progress Avenue, is a mapping of time and space through Progress Avenue in Scarborough, Ontario. The street travels through a variety of archetypes ranging from Housing, Parking Lots, Malls, Highways, and Factories. Using Chrono-Photography taken from a moving vehicle, Progress Avenue is able to explore and map the time and space taken from one place to another, while documenting the progression of an ever-changing neighbourhood.

Progress Avenue, required a mechanism in which multiple images could be created at once, on a timed basis, while moving down a street in a vehicle. Containing two DSLR cameras the mechanism was attached to the roof rack of a vehicle. To capture both sides of the street simultaneously cameras were placed at the edges of the roof facing opposing directions while wired triggers were attached and set in consistent intervals of one second. The vehicle was then driven down the entire avenue capturing everything on it. The finished work is displayed in a way to show movement and time through the street. One thousand and eighty images were taken and placed in a waveform-like shape representing the speed and amount of time spent at each location. The more images created; the more time spent at the location.

While the original work was conceptualized and first presented as a large format 18.5’ x 1.5’ print in the sequence shown below; it later was adapted into a photo book titled, Two minutes of Progress Avenue.

The book was acquired by Ryerson University as a part of the Ryerson University Library and Archives' First Edition Book Award, 2020. Below are some selections from the book to show how the project was adapted.