Harriet Street

Peter Baczek

Weathered siding, a tangle of cables, and a chipped sidewalk are presented with as much care as a portrait in Baczek’s “Harriet Street.” A short side street situated between Brannan and Harrison in San Francisco, Harriet is home to several former storefronts and industrial warehouses whose facades still echo the Western architectural elements of their early 20th-century origins.

Baczek’s expert eye finds a kind of muted solace in abandoned or otherwise quiet corners of bustling cities, lending a visual poetry at once mournful and joyous.