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Although a sign assures us that Toddy's Café is open, no one appears to be inside or on the dirty, snow-covered street. This photograph isolates the building as a space for our examination. Meant to be both a commercial space and a social space, the café, detached from its patrons, is unable to hold its identity as a café. The advertisements in the window have no audience, and the sign “WAITRESS WANTED” seems to request more than just a waitress—a whole staff and customers, too, perhaps.

MD, PHOTOdocument exhibition, March 30, 2012-July 22, 2012

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