Boston photographer casts a lens on the lights and shadows of Boston’s West End

Over the past 16 years, Boston’s West End has seen a series of rapid-fire changes. From the dismantling of the iconic elevated MBTA tracks, to the completion of the Central Artery. Perched in its shadow with a camera, 58-year-old Lolita Parker, Jr. has captured its evolution.

Parker, a California-turned-West Ender and life-long photographer, is preparing her exhibition “The New West Enders & Other Green Monsters,” which opens at the West End Museum on January 6.

Set against a backdrop of TD Garden events, sports bars and endless construction, Parker’s wide-angle perspective ranges from the personal to the political, and capture the projects, events and…