"Gerald Cyrus, as a Philadelphia-based photographer, did what many Philadelphia area commuters and tourists do: He took Interstate 676 and used the Delaware Port Authority’s Benjamin Franklin Bridge to cross the Delaware River to enter Camden County, New Jersey...However, he did something that few of those travelers do, and that was to stop in the city of Camden and walk through its various neighborhoods and districts from the riverfront to the inner city...This engagement with the people and spaces of the city, begun in 2001 and continued until 2008, has resulted in a composite portrait in black and white of this small, postindustrial, East Coast city."
—from the introduction by William E. Williams