Documentation and renovation, as seen from a scaffold

Raised in suburban Maryland, Colin Winterbottom studied economics and social policy at college and got a job at a D.C. think tank researching the economic effects of proposed health-care reform in the Clinton era. Yet he was drawn to the buildings he walked among each day and pursued an interest in photographing them, especially when they were covered with the strangely alluring mesh of scaffolding for renovation. The temporary platforms allowed him, with permission, to climb and see up close or...