Work-in-Progress Critique 2

Through photography, I attempt to take the viewer back to a time where Hannibal Square could be called “home” for several families. My work explores the changes that can occur within a community over time. Although I cannot say I have ever been affected by gentrification, I am able to sympathize with the people of Hannibal Square. The place they call home, the place their children remember growing up in and celebrating holidays in. These spaces are not just houses, they are what many Hannibal Square locals call their home. This “urban renewal” that occurs every day in a community just steps away from Rollins is often times overlooked. Looking into a community, of course everything seems perfect… new restaurants, shopping, and luxury apartment complexes popping up left and right. Although this may seem like the community everyone wants to live in, it comes at quite the cost for the locals of Hannibal Square. While this act of “renewal” accommodates the influx of middle-class or affluent people, it displaces the residents of Hannibal Square by driving up rent and forcing them out of their existing homes. By exploring the houses and buildings within the neighborhood of Hannibal Square, I am able to delve into what gentrification is really doing to its residents.


How does gentrification affect its neighboring communities? How does the gentrification of Hannibal Square affect the community of Winter Park?