Category: street photography
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rencontres #2 (off the wall)
These photographs were taken in the LUMA Arles Parc des Ateliers in September 2014. The Parc des Ateliers is a former railroad wasteland covering an area of 27 acres that was first operated by the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée (PLM) company, which became the SNCF in 1938. The LUMA arts campus, which hosts exhibitions, performances, conferences and other…
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rencontres #1 (délices d’été)
Founded by Lucien Clergue and others in 1970, Les Rencontres d’Arles is one of the world’s great annual photography festivals. We have been fortunate to visit it several times. These images were shot in 2014.
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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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Little Hanoi, Prague
There are currently over 80,000 Vietnamese citizens and Czech citizens of Vietnamese origin living in the Czech Republic. They form the largest ethnic minority in the country (after Slovaks and Ukrainians) and the third-largest Vietnamese community in Europe. The Vietnamese are the only significant non-white community in Czechia other than the Roma. The Sapa Trade…
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kafka metro tram
Quadrio Shopping Center, Národní třída, Prague The “moving head” of Franz Kafka (#1), installed outside the Quadria Center in 2014, is by the artist David Černý. The text in image #7 translates as “love somehow doesn’t always triumph over liars or over money” – a pointed allusion to Václav Havel’s slogan “Truth and love must…
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red zone
#1 Café Slavia, Prague #2 Philadelphia, April 2008 #3-4 Diana, New York, April 2008 #5 Prague, September 2015 Beijing, April 2012 Languedoc (Pézenas + Agde), September 2011 #1-2 Agde, September 2011 #3 Malacca, January 2006 #4-6, Calgary, 2016-17 #1 + 6 Calgary 2017 #2-5 New Orleans, April 2010 Calgary, 2017-18 #1-2, New York, January 2011…
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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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