This website

This site has been developed to document the transition of the courts from the old location at the capitol to their new judicial center.

My involvement with the Oklahoma courts began in June of 2010. They were in mid process of moving the courts from their current location, inside the capitol building, into a newly renovated building, now called the Judicial Center. They began moving in July of 2011 upon which the justices made their final move, then later the criminal court of appeals judges made theirs.

There are still several on-going photographs to be taken but my participation will likely end around July of 2012.

This project transition is a photo document in four parts:

1)photographing the old supreme and criminal courtrooms;
2)photograph the new building while in renovation process;
3)portraits of Supreme Court Justices and Criminal Court Judges;
4)finally, the newly renovated building in it's finished state.

The photographs on this site are the property of Neil Chapman and cannot be used without permission. In the future the Historical Society of Oklahoma will be the joint holder.

This website

First goal of this photo project was to document the historical transfer of the courts from the capitol building to the newly renovated location.

Second goal was to photograph those most important to the transfer; the supreme court and the criminal court of appeals and administrative offices of the courts.

These images will be archived and presented, for historical purposes, to the Oklahoma Historical Society upon completion of the project.

One last goal (hopeful) is a book of the project in a documentary artistic style.