Still in Use: A Visual Record of Community, Contamination, and Resilience documents eight years of photographer Renee M. Dillard Newman's sustained observation of the Earvin "Magic" Johnson Recreation Area in Willowbrook, California — a public park built on land once contaminated by a former tank farm that displaced 300 families and forced a neighborhood childcare center to close.
Through 48 black and white photographs organized into eight thematic sections, Dillard Newman captures what persists — the warning signs, the memorials, the monitoring wells, the new construction and the people who never stopped showing up.
This is not a story of resolution. It is a record of persistence.