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For as much time as I have spent waxing on about flat, graphic compositions, vast depth is also deeply compelling. The thought crossed my mind as I flew home last weekend that sunset, as seen from above the clouds, will make a pious man out of a sinner — at least for the duration of […]
He sat, with all the aplomb of a man crafting the Gettysburg Address, hunched over a loose sheet torn from a notebook. The weekend was to have rules. The first one, “have fun.” Years had hardened his body into a man’s. Present also in the right middle seat of row 9 were the deliberate procedural […]
Gold and Blue via New Haven, CT.
Here’s something from the lab. I wanted to put together some of my favorite pics from a year of blogging, but in the end I still had to skip a few good ones.
A few months ago I found myself asking for driving directions at a café in a mall. Three teens were there, two behind the counter and one who seemed to be hanging out with the other two. I asked the younger of the two behind the counter for directions, but her older and presumably senior […]
Morning light flies in at diffent angles. If you can be there to see it often enough, sooner or later you will begin to see differently too. That’s something us night people have to learn over and over again.
Cedric the Entertainer joked recently that the main reason parents go trick-or-treating with their kids is so they can see what other people have in their homes. A peek into the atelier, if you will, Atlanta, GA and Brooklyn, NY. Here are two places that I don’t live, but that if I knew what the […]
The lights above the fairgrounds were visible for miles around, a beacon in the dark night sky. It was a county fair. I parked my rented Mustang and walked down a dirt path past the rides and vendors towards the source of all the noise. A truck and tractor pull. The noise was deafening and […]
There are lonlier places in the world than Penn Station at 2 a.m. on a Sunday night. But probably not that many.
This piece was shot during the course of an 11-day, 30 state tour of the country in the summer of 2002. I didn’t get around to cutting it until a couple of years later. Duing the trip we zagged from New York City, up and down the country wherever fancy carried us, until we landed […]
Will someone please tell me why I keep photographing walls? Or, better yet, why I can’t stop photographing them? When I see a wall like this — something flat and, I think, beautiful — a guilty smile bubbles up inside. It’s almost like I’m sneaking downstairs for another midnight snack, or climbing up on a […]
The mornings in Baltimore belong to bread trucks, carpenters, and junkies.
He wore black shorts to match a black t-shirt and loose black du-rag tied around his head. He wasn’t so much leading his blind friend down the street as he was allowing the slower walking pace to give his jokes more breathing room; maybe he needed to think something over. The streets are about game, […]
Chillicothe, Ohio might be the prettiest small town in America. There is a Main Street, and a set of railroad tracks that divides the town along class lines. Pairs of teenagers troop down the streets intermittently, looking for something to do. When I arrived, Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing was tolling from the bells of […]
A few weeks ago I found myself passing through Winchester, VA, a town for whom, I suppose, the Winchester gun company is named. The town has yet to be graced by the presence of a Starbucks, and it took me a few attempts to find someone who could direct me to a wireless internet connection. […]