6:20 am… Photography and moral questions…

6:20 am… Photography and moral questions… I shot some really closeup and personal work yesterday of a man who I’ve been photographing for several years. I captured several really powerful images. I’m not posting any of them without telling the…

The Brick and the Basketball…

I hold a basketball in one hand, and a brick in the other. I tell a subjectivist that when I drop them, the basketball will bounce higher than the brick. The subjectivist says, “I disagree.” I drop both the ball…

“Junkie Business”

As many people may know, over the past two years I have been working on a documentary photo project that deals with the issue of heroin addiction. Now I’m ready to put the book and gallery show together, and I’ve…

5:41 am… Icicle City…

5:41 am… Icicle City crackles in the frozen dawn as Northern winds blow harshly upon lowly sidewalk dwellers. Her tentacles rise up from the Earth like sparkling horned erections.

A cold indifference…

Concrete ghettos roll across the urban prairie like aftershocks from some fantastic social quake. There is a cold indifference to a city, a sort of hardened callus that forms over the pavement. The bricks stare down at the morning workers…

4:51 am… Cool to the touch

4:51 am… The Earth is cool to the touch, as the Dawn slowly turns and says hello.

5:17 am… Venturing to Urbana

5:17 am… I’ll be venturing to Urbana in a couple of hours to spend a few days making prints with a friend. I love driving old Route 45 through all the little forgotten towns that now serve as hospice for old…

5:10 am… the force of will

5:10 am… I’m trying to decide which of the many ideas that I have in my head, should be brought forth into existence. While all people have thoughts, it is Creators who use their force of will to forge invisible…