Fort Wayne is preserved as the place where Seth / Ezra Dager’s life began.

It is the birthplace of multiple generations of his family and remains the geographic center of many of the relationships that shaped his earliest years.

The archive documents the city not as a destination, but as the point of origin from which the rest of the archive expands.

The photographs preserve places connected to family, memory, childhood, and return.

Together, they provide context for the environments in which the earliest chapters of the Human Archive were formed.