ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE, SINGLE SHOE ISLAND 3, ELLIS ISLAND, 1998

ADMINISTRATION OFFICE, SINGLE SHOE, ISLAND 3

I walked into the room as sunlight streamed onto a table where a single shoe had been left in the 1940s. After repeated visits, I discovered that the room never received direct sunlight except at a single moment each day: 3:15 p.m.— the precise moment I happened upon the scene and photographed it.

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