Social Documentary Photography Tip: Never shoot in automatic mode. Your little pop-up flashy may go off, thus alerting everyone to what you are doing, including those two drug dealers sitting on the corner. If you’re in a bad neighborhood, you…
END THE WAR ON DRUGS!
While searching for John Lee today, I ran into Shaggy, whom I haven’t seen in about eight months. He’s now in a wheelchair due to complications from a recent heroin overdose. Drug addiction is a biological and psychological sickness, NOT…
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…
Heroin addiction photo project GoFundMe fundraiser!
As many people may know, over the past 18 months I have been working on a photo project that deals with the issue of heroin addiction. Now I’m ready to put the book and gallery show together, but I’ll need…
Chicago Street Photography Tour Photo
I recently had the opportunity to lead a private one-on-one Chicago street photography tour for an awesome photographer from Turin, Italy. Maurisio Ghiozzi was wanting to see parts of the city other than the downtown area, so we visited several…
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 45Â through all the little forgotten towns that now serve as hospice for old…
