Press
“One Street City: The Story of Capital Boulevard in Photos”
“Photographer Ben Harris goes on a healing search for beauty in the mundane.”
FRONT PAGE: “Photographer captures beauty on seedy Raleigh strip”
“Through his eyes, the street most would rank among Raleigh's ugliest takes on an insistent quality, demanding not only to be noticed, but exalted for its too-human defects.”
“Photographer finds the beauty in his ordinary hometown”
“A photographer who takes pictures of his “ordinary and plain” hometown wants to encourage others to see the beauty in the mundane.”
“Meet the influencers”
“Harris chronicles working class communities, picturesque aging structures, immigrant-owned businesses and low-cost motels, showing that everyday beauty shouldn't be taken for granted.”
“Portrait of a Street”
“Starting as a way to pass the time during the pandemic, Ben began to capture hidden sights that go ignored by most people. Highlighting this unnoticed world and documenting the always changing hectic street became the basis of his on-going photo project—One Street City.”