If you were to visit the patch of Boston captured in Jack Lueders-Booth’s book The Orange Line today, you would find a very different scene to the one depicted in his photos, which were shot nearly 40 years ago. “The area today is as predicted: up-scaled modern buildings, high-end retail boutiques and fine restaurants,” the Boston-born photographer tells AnOther. Once home to a predominantly Black working-class community, the worn-down southern stretch of the city’s Orange Line subway system was on the precipice of change when Lueders-Booth arrived to photograph the neighbourhood back in 1985. The loud, clattering railway, along which many people lived and worked, was scheduled to be demolished and rerouted, and fears of rising rents and displacement hung in the air. Shot over the course of one year, Booth’s warm yet unflinching book captures this precarious moment in time from the perspective of its residents – serving as a record of the people, families and workers who lived there before gentrification took hold. - Orla Brennen, AnOther Magazine