The shoot in Indianapolis went well  -  I should say great, because I just got the film and pictures back from the lab today, and I’m very, VERY pleased. But I’ll say “well” because I’m my own worst critic.
It was a dirty shoot, and another smooth adventure. Dave Evans and I went crawling around and under tight […]

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After 18 months of living in the Bay Area, I have a handful of images I’m happy with. It hasn’t been easy. I’ve scoured this vast and relatively young urban setting for old decaying stuff to shoot. Whenever I was out, I sniffed the air for urban rot. I followed countless leads and found myself in countless dead […]

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Kansas City is one of the country’s best-kept secrets. Its at an interesting crossroad: its where the rust belt ends, meeting up where southern hospitality begins. So its an old gritty city with history and beautiful architecture like any mid-west or eastern city, but the people speak “southern,” and they are just as friendly as […]

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I slept in the van last night. Except for the high winds, I had a good sleep. Staring out the back windows, they became a surreal canvas of swaying trees in the gusty night. Then I had lovely visions of my booth and all my art going up like in the Wizard of Oz (I […]

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Well I set up most of my booth - show starts tomorrow - then went for a nice walk taking pictures around Chicago (see below). What a great city. It shares an interesting quality with New York. There’s a lot of steel in its infrastructure (and I don’t mean the buildings). It looks like it was meant […]

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Alley 100 - Woohoo!!!!!!!!
Alleys & Fire Escapes, no. 100  -  “Ghost Story”  (2007, Kansas City, MO, 1:30am)

Kansas City has a long history of haunted spaces and sightings. Turn-of-the-century haunted hotels, long-suffering ghosts, and other paranormal incidents have been local folklore for a century. This colorful past has paved the way for the current crop of […]

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I came across some of my old B&W negatives today, and they rekindled some of my early photography memories. In 1983, when I was 18 and happily painting and drawing, I took a photography class in college - it was actually named Photo 101. I had the teacher load my first roll of film, since […]

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While searching for a location to shoot, I pull into a small industrial complex that looks like it was drop kicked a few times, then left to bake and rust. I immediately feel good about this place, so I stop and get out to look more closely. Hobbling toward me is a homeless man who asks me what […]

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I don’t know where to begin… Yesterday was a mind-blowing day - First I meet a TV legend then I’m almost killed.
In the afternoon I met one of my collectors whom I’d been wanting to meet for some time. Earl Hamner is the creator/producer of TV’s The Waltons (and later Falcon Crest, plus he wrote many […]

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There’s something wrong with me… well yes, many things, but for now one in particular. The day I drove into LA, I went straight to Compton, and then Watts, looking to photograph the worst these places had to offer. These are among the most dangerous places in the LA area, and the US, and I […]

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