Hey, Hot Shot! Entries: Sam Sweezy
Worker housing, Gatun, 2006 by aspiring Hot Shot Sam Sweezy
Another fresh entry, Hot Shot hopeful Sam Sweezy’s image of the worker housing in Gatun is one of many he captured in an area which will soon be radically transformed once recently approved construction on new locks begins. Allow me to pass the mic to Sam…
I have photographed architecture commercially for many years. More recently I have also done cultural documentation projects. The most recent is a focused photographic exploration of the Panama Canal Zone, an extraordinary place that was shaped by important technological, economic, social, and political events of the 20th century. The work is not didactic but descriptive, however the choice to make images of the Canal Zone inevitably poses questions about this endangered area and its people. The primary goal was to show the landscape and build environment in this 50 by 5 mile enclave. Eleven sites were photographed, which are either towns servicing the canal or former US military bases.
