www.foldedmapproject.com
Tonika Lewis Johnson’s Folded Map™ Project visually connects residents who live at corresponding addresses on the North and South Sides of Chicago. She investigates what urban segregation looks like and how it impacts Chicago residents. What started as a photographic study quickly evolved into a multimedia exploration with video interviews of residents. The project invites audiences to open a dialogue and question how we are all socially impacted by racial and institutional conditions that segregate the city. Her goal? For individuals to understand how our urban environment is structured and its impact on our social networks. She wants to challenge everyone to think about how change may be possible and to contribute to a solution. View Folded Map’s website at www.foldedmapproject.com
Folded Map’s website is LIVE! https://www.foldedmapproject.com/
July 25, 2020 - During the pandemic, Folded Map's first partcipants created "Block Twins," an initiative, inspired by their sustained friendship through Tonika's Folded Map project, where they invited their neighbors to meet eachother and beautify an Englewood block with plants, flowers and art. Email wgw703@gmail.com to get involved in.
South Side, Englewood resident, Nanette, sitting with Wade on his porch in Chicago’s North Side neighborhood of Edgewater.
North Side, Edgewater neighborhood resident, Wade, in front of South Side resident, Nanette’s home in Englewood.
South Side, Englewood neighborhood resident Nanette on Northside resident, Wade’s porch in the Edgewater neighborhood.
6720 North Ashland
6720 South Ashland
What differences do you notice between intersections 6900 SOUTH Ashland and 6900 NORTH Ashland? #FoldedMap
Carmen lives 5600 SOUTH on Winchester Street
Brighid lives 6500 NORTH on Winchester Street
Brighid & Carmen meeting for the first time.
Jon and Paula lives 6400 NORTH on Hermitage Street
Maurice “Phatal” Perkins was raised 6500 SOUTH on Hermitage Street. His mother and family still lives there.
“Map Twins," Englewood resident Maurice "Phatal” Perkins and Rogers Park residents Paula Herrmann and her husband Jonathan Silverstein, visited Maurice in Englewood for a walk around his the blocks he grew up on.
“Map Twins," Englewood resident Maurice "Phatal” Perkins and Rogers Park residents Paula Herrmann and her husband Jonathan Silverstein, visited Maurice in Englewood for a walk around his the blocks he grew up on.
on September 29, 2018, in conjunction with the 2018 Filter Photo Festival, Tonika Lewis Johnson discussed her Folded Map project with "Map Twins," Chicago residents who were photographed for the project.
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