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Rob McGowan: A Stirring Body of Work

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Frank’s Market on South Main at Vance may be home now to a convenience store and popular sandwich shop, but once upon a time it was known as Frank’s Liquors, a place for Phillip Sands, an art-history student gone “haywire,” to work. Upstairs, in one of the building’s second-floor apartments, it was also a place for Sands to call home. The derelict South Main neighborhood surrounding it: a place for the young man to take photographs and, in so doing, picture his damaged self.