Charles Haycox

Charles Haycox is a San Francisco native and film photographer whose work explores the city’s overlooked spaces and the traces left by its earlier incarnations. His lifelong relationship with San Francisco informs a fascination with what the familiar landscape conceals.

Primus in Carthago

Primus in Carthago is an ongoing photographic exploration of the lost, hidden, and half-erased San Francisco.

Working primarily with film, Haycox documents forgotten passageways, obsolete infrastructure, architectural remnants, and places where different eras of the city remain visible at once.

The project is less an attempt to reconstruct a vanished San Francisco than an investigation of what survives within the present one.