Category: Americana
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unexpected encounters #12: road trip journal
The truth is that in this house with its four walls of glass I feel … always on alert. I am always restless. Even in the evening. I feel like a sentinel on guard day and night. I can rarely stretch out and relax … Edith Farnsworth, quoted on panel at Farnsworth House [Sally] Hemings’…
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unexpected encounters #6: exit
The error of the Surrealist militants was to imagine the surreal to be something universal, that is, a matter of psychology, whereas it turns out to be what is most local, ethnic, class-bound, dated … Believing that the images they sought came from the unconscious, whose contents they assumed as loyal Freudians to be timeless…
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cafés #1
broadly defined, to include food courts, diners, hawker stalls, food trucks, and street food establishments of all kinds … New York, January 2015 Johor Bahru, February 2016 Siem Reap, February 2016 Hanoi, February 2016 #1–4 Hanoi #5–6 Saigon February 2016 Calgary, December 2016
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Marfa, Texas (Americana #2)
I have been avoiding visiting the United States since Trump was elected president in 2016 and I can’t see that changing so long as MAGA remains a force in the land. But I have some fond memories. These photos were taken on my first trip to Marfa, Texas, in April 2011. The images in the…
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are, bure, boke #2
The Japanese Provoke photographers’ slogan “are, bure, boke,” or “rough, blurred, out-of-focus” applies to many of my images. Some of these effects are intentional, more are not. Many people would dismiss these simply as “bad pictures,” but another view is possible: Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors…
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(in perfect harmony)
#1 Diana, New York, April 2008 #2 London summer 2001 #3 Marfa, TX, April 2011 #4 Little India, Singapore, December 2005 #5 Paekakeriki, New Zealand, December 2000 #1-2 Kaeo + Kawakawa, New Zealand, November-December 2000 #3 Vermilion County, LA, March 2014 #4 Terlingua, TX, April 2014 #1 + 2, Marfa, TX, April 2014 #3 Whangerei,…
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