Florida
I’ve spent more time in cities than gated communities, mountains than beaches, deserts than swamps. This is not by accident. Until last week, I wasn’t even 100% sure there was such thing as Florida. I just knew …
The Signal & The Noise
noise, n. (nɔɪz) 7. In scientific use, a collective term (used without the indef. article) for: fluctuations or disturbances (usu. irregular) which are not part of a wanted signal or which interfere with its intelligibility or …
Links
Remember the 20th century, when every site had a links page? Let’s bring that back. Friends & Comrades Jan Baracz Darin Boville Richard Bram Thomas Broadbent Vince Cianni Eric Corriel Joanne Dugan Natan Dvir Martine Fougeron …
By the Way
Here’s a selection of pictures stumbled upon, mostly in Brooklyn, occasionally in Manhattan or Providence or Philly. I don’t fancy myself a street photographer, and so don’t go looking for these. But once in a while …
Framing
Over the last four years, with the Domino Sugar Refinery series, I’ve been making 40 and 60 inch-wide prints. A few collectors who are new to larger prints have asked me for framing and display advice. …
Rome
When I visited Rome as a teenager, on a coast-to-coast bike tour way back in the 20th century, I was taken in by the magic. When I returned in 2015, I felt more subsumed than taken …
Paris
If I had to choose between the beauty and the weirdness of great faraway cities, I’d take the weirdness any day. Happily there’s no need to choose. The situation is really no different in close-to-home cities …
Rwanda and Congo
In 2012 I traveled to Kigali, Rwanda, to visit a friend living there on a Fulbright scholarship. This was the farthest I’d been from home, either culturally or as the crow flies (definitely as the Qatar …
Sub/Culture Adenda
While photographing for the Sub/Culture project, I got curious about the video monitors hanging above the platforms. These are for helping the conductors see the far ends of the train before closing the doors, but they …
Dead Plushies
Here’s a typical un-project: a group of images born in the editing process, given shape, meaning, narrative, etc. entirely retrospectively. I suspect almost everyone with a camera works like this, at least sometimes. Many don’t work …