Twenty-six-year-old Piermont native Trevor Traynor is in the process of documenting his hometown in his "My Piermont" series. Traynor is going about the project in a decidedly subjective way, however. "I'm not photographing the police chief, the fire chief, the mayor," says Traynor. 'I'm photographing people who've meant something in my life, from the neighborhood bully to the people I rode the bus with as a kid." Using a medium-format Hasselblad camera, Traynor is shooting what he calls "selective landscapes" of his hometown, in stark black-and-white, a departure from his four-color portrait work for music magazines like Rime, Mugshot, and Tablist. "I want to take my work back to angles, shadows, and shapes," says Traynor.

Traynor's "Chromocore Project" will be exhibited in a group show at the L Street Gallery in San Diego in April. An online portfolio of Traynor's work can be seen at www.trevortraynor.com.