A series capturing the city of Atlanta by photographer Joshua Dudley Greer. Born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, Greer explores the contemporary American landscape through long-form projects that consider the impact of culture on the physical environment. Atlanta is a place that has been destroyed and rebuilt many times over. Its current state is one of flux—vacillating between its unique cultural history and generic metropolitan identity. Taken between 2020 and 2024, the photos in “The Makeshift City” span several major events including the COVID-19 pandemic and social movements like Black Lives Matter and Stop Cop City.

Despite being one of the largest and most progressive cities in the American South, the systems that govern Atlanta often remain immutable, constrained by capital interests and political parties see-sawing for power. The images in this series show landscapes ruptured by both the tensions of the past and the realities of the present.