Journal

  1. Remembering and Forgetting

    I have avoided photography during the pandemic. For me, photography is about remembering, not forgetting, and I want to forget the COVID-19 pandemic. I have slowly started to get back to work. One of the photos I took to symbolize this period was of a newspaper box, photographed on January…

  2. The Heartist

    I was conspicuously taking pictures when he appeared out of nowhere and asked if he could take mine. “Of course,” I said.  His face was set in an impish grin so I wasn’t sure of his intent but I was intrigued. He gestured towards my camera. I responded, “No, with…

  3. Printing Matters

    I spent time recently printing a few Black & White photographs, cutting a mat, and framing my favorite image from 2018 and I was reminded just how much it matters to make prints. Some shots are destined to be images whereas others do not fully come into their own until…

  4. Instamatic

    The first camera that I ever operated and used to successfully take a picture was an old forgotten Kodak Instamatic that I found buried in a closet in my childhood home. It used a 110 film cartridge and flashcubes. The later were used sparingly in my family and it was…

  5. Blurred Lines

    There is an unhealthy fixation with sharpness in photographs today. Mostly because it is quite easy to make sharp images with digital tools. And people like it. Hyper-reality is the ascendant aesthetic of our time. Consider this gallery resistance to this hegemony.I used the stabilization feature of the Olympus Em5…

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