Finally. After five long months of frigid, often painfully cold temperatures and people, the first hints of spring are starting to tease Minneapolis. Like a cheap hooker that only shows you she’s a tranny after you’ve paid your $50, the cityscape is beginning to reveal all of its dirty little secrets. These include the usual [...]
One of the many perks of my job is getting to go on random treks through the two buildings that make up the college. Yesterday I had the pleasure of traversing through the underground vaults of our building on Hennepin Avenue in MPLS. It was a very creepy and smelly place… but the abandoned bank [...]
AH! Finally some exceptionally good news comes my way. I have been selected to participate in an exhibition at TPTP in Paris. It looks like an amazing, energetic, and fun gallery space and I am thrilled to break the spell of exhibition drought with this show. Thank you Phillip Tonda, for selecting my work!
I will [...]
I recently traveled to Lincoln, Nebraska – the city where I studied at the University of Nebraska. After being away from “The Good Life” for over a year, it was refreshing, frightening, and beautiful to return. I would summarize the feeling as being wound into a photographic cocoon. Enjoy a few tidbits…
And just in case [...]
Everyone has photographic fetishes. And, I have a thing for airports. Maybe it is the intersection of private desire to travel with very public, non-descript, and functional architecture. Or maybe I just like photographing in places where I know my film may be confiscated.
On a recent trip to New York I had the distinct pleasure [...]
As usual, I am going to ramble along as I work out a few ideas that have been lingering in that cobwebby part of my brain I rarely use. I am referring to the creative/artistic part of me that has been languishing recently as I focus my life on more practical tasks like paying bills, [...]
I’m not sure if I am caught in an atemporal vortex or if Minneapolis is hitting some sort of built-environment equilibrium. While walking home yesterday, humming various bits of soundtrack to myself, I noticed that my city is engaged in a process consisting of equal parts renewal and equal parts decline. As the first image [...]
Just an average day for an average man in a shockingly green sweater vest. I’ve been shamelessly browsing through Bing Maps and enjoying the bird’s eye view feature. Perhaps the greatest joy of not making photographs is tracing the places where I used to make photographs. Twisted and torturous, I know. Anyway, the above image [...]
For the first time in months (notice the dust on the top of the body) I am loading up my Canon A-1 and shooting some 35mm film. I’d like to think that 35mm is going to go through a renaissance this year… digital has become the status quo and large-format mega photos seem almost passé. [...]