Where does a tweet actually originate? What do the landscapes where they were created look like? Locating tweets geographically, by using publicly available GPS metadata, photographers Marni Shindelman and Nate Larson are answering that question in cities across the country.

The collaborators begin by looking at trending topics on Twitter, and then track the locations of those with GPS coordinates, paying special attention to tweets that respond to relationships and feelings of isolation. They then physically photograph the spots where these tweets were sent, thus far encompassing Chicago, Baltimore, Rochester, Syracuse, Washington DC, Atlantic City, and various New Jersey suburbs.

The project, called Geolocations, is about two years old. It originated when the New York-based Shindelman and the Maryland-based Larsen met at a conference in 2007 and began corresponding about the idea of telepathy.

"The last I checked, there were somewhere in the ballpark of 250 million tweets a day, and they slip away so quickly into the vastness of the internet. We see the project as preserving a small fragment of them before they are lost in the digital noise."

Larson continues:

"With the #HowToKeepARelationshipWithMe, we shot all 20 of the tweets that had both that tag and GPS coordinates around the NYC metro area while we were looking for about a week in the middle of July [2012]. We picked that tag because of the strange mixture of vulnerability and bravado, as well as the implications for contemporary relationships playing out in a public forum."

So, what does happen when a tweet is reconnected with its location? When the invisible world of social media is anchored to the physical world? These anticlimactic, understated images are void of people--the viewer imagines the people sending the messages.