Showers. Sometimes it’s so hard to wash things away and start your day.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
I don’t really know my neighbors on my street here in Athens. Maybe I should, but our house got a fairly cold, passive aggressive warning/welcome from one permanent resident and I’m not here for that long anyways. Something akin to “welcome to the neighborhood, we’ll be watching and listening to you” yikes.
Anyways, there are many [...]
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
I posted this a few days ago over on the APhotoADay Blog, where I am a contributor, but the more I go through this project the more I am fascinated by it.
Switzerland based artists GORAN GALIC &
GIAN-RETO GREDIG have created Photographers in Conflict which puts people whose names we usually only see under the [...]
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Sometimes you just have to make something. Even if there is nothing. And even if you’ll hate it or wonder why you bothered, at least it represents that you made something….which is one step towards a better “something”
My dad is checking out the family van on our way home from Dayton, Ohio to see family for Christmas. Christmas used to be a fairly smooth ordeal for everyone, but a few wrenches have been thrown in the past few years. In 2005, the van broke down on Christmas day. I was supposed to [...]
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
My second (and last … most likely) winter in Athens. Seasons in every place have their own feeling, and Athens is no different. Winter, to me, embodies the spirit of this town and this geographical space. Winter here is not frigid nor a bright white. It is dark, it is wet, it is rain as [...]
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
I’d recently read about a new book coming out from a Hong Kong based artist and (sort of) photojournalist named Michael Wolf. The book was shot in about a month’s time and in none other than the city I grew up nearby. Entitled “The Transparent City”, this stack of paper is probably the best recent [...]
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Here’s an homage to the day I will spend on the road tomorrow. I suppose everyone needs an empty parking lot / gas station shot in their archives right? Let’s hope for a not so sloppy winter in Athens, unlike last year.
