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domesticated
With this series of images, I examine domesticated urban plants and people's attempts to control and manipulate them in sometimes trivial and inconsequential ways. My hope is that these at times humorous and tragic examples echo conditions within the larger context of the relationship between humanity and nature. I also hope that the viewer can identify with certain human or anthropomorphic characteristics of the subjects, perhaps feeling a bit saddened by their subjugated circumstances.
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wheeled estate
Like any desirable place to live, real estate in San Francisco is prohibitably expensive. But this doesn't stop people from finding ways around this very formidable barrier to entry. From living on the street to couch surfing, there
seems no end to people's ingenuity in this regard. Here I explore one avenue of making it in "the city", car/truck/RV/van/bus camping.
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the truth about nihilism
Nihilism
- a philosophical position which argues that objective morality does not exist
- the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is ultimately meaningless.
- a doctrine that denies any objective ground of truth and especially of moral truths
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immediate vicinity
On 21st of March, 2007 my daughter was born. My son had, two months prior, celebrated his second birthday. Anyone in similar circumstances can appreciate that there is little time for anything other than domesticated "bliss" and occasionally some sleep. Photography seemed out of the question. Determined to fit image making back into my life, I set about to make the best use of the only time that I had to myself, my commute to work. My commute consisted of a 12 minute walk to the subway and then a 10 minute ride. At the age of three my son started pre-school and this put an end to my 12 minutes of photography a day. Part of the challenge, problem of photography is over coming limitations, either real, imagined or artificial. Some people like being put in a box, I'm not fond of it. When given photographic lemons.... Anybody thirsty?
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la - lower alabama
This series of images is a reexamination of a landscape that is both familiar and foreign to me. Having grown up in the south eastern part of the US, I am now just a yearly visitor. As the years have passed, this landscape seems more and more foreign and not identifiable as part of me as it once was. We all change over time, some more than others I imagine, but I don't think you can live life and not be affected, changed in someway over time. "We are the sum of our experiences", perhaps. Time has passed and experiences have accumulated, I am now a stranger in this landscape, I am changed in some fundamental way.
A stranger's view of LA.
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