Photographs taken from 2013-2019 in Rochester, NY. Visualizes a city post Kodak, Rochester's main economic stronghold, after its bankruptcy in 2012. People, events and places are portrayed to bring to life a quote by Rochester journalist and author Henry Clune, "there is a feeling that if the great plant of the Eastman Kodak Company were removed from the cities environs a sign might be erected at the station platform 'THIS WAS ROCHESTER.'" The title references a book written by Curt Gerling, another author/journalist, entitled Smugtown, U.S.A which was formerly Rochester's nickname. His book satirized in good humor Rochester's 200 millionaires and "Kodak-Men." SMUG DREAM picks up long after Kodak's reign using Rochester's former Inner Loop boundary to show a different, grittier city.