One Years Time

Christopher Moss- HH Gregg , February 2010
Christopher Moss- Circuit City, February 2009

100 Abandoned Houses

Kevin Bauman has been photographing abandoned house's in Detroit since the 90's, his work speaks volumes about our economic crisis.

Howard Zinn (1922-2010)

Howard Zinn, one of the country’s most celebrated historians, died of a heart attack Wednesday in Santa Monica, California. He was 87.

His classic work, A People’s History of the United States, changed the way we look at history in America. First published a quarter of a century ago, the book has sold over a million copies and continues to sell more copies each successive year.

After serving as a shipyard worker and then an Air Force bombardier in World War II, Zinn went on to become a lifelong dissident and peace activist. He went to college under the GI Bill, received his PhD from Columbia. He was active in the civil rights movement and many of the struggles for social justice over the past half-century. He taught at Spelman College, the historically black college for women in Atlanta, was fired for insubordination for standing up for the women. He is now Professor Emeritus at Boston University and was recently honored by Spelman.

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Looking at Tim Davis and Mitch Epstein

Tim Davis - McDonald's Fragment
Mitch Epstein - BP Carson Refinery, California 2007

Social Landscapes

Clarity at Last

I have found that it takes the exact opposite approach to creating art than what I have been disciplined to do for the past four to six years to attain any clarity for my own projects, post college. I have been photographing, when I have the time on weekends, things that I am oddly attracted to, but for no particular reason other than the subject is somehow drawn to me. Mostly mundane elements of a society that most tend to ignore. I often think, why the hell am I attracted to this, why am I taking its picture. These questions were never the basis of any of my college projects, in which I would have to formulate an idea and then go out and find something to objectify my idea. Its taken a year or more, of photographing with only a slight idea of what I was looking at to allow my images to produce an idea for me, so that I can follow its threads to whatever direction it will take me. My god it feels nice to have final started to put these visual threads into somewhat of a web that I can begin to fill out. Im just beginning to realize how much potential these pieces of the puzzle could amount to, and I am so excited to have found a means of working and seeing that can lead me in new directions that even I had not the faintest idea as to where it could go next. I finally have a greater sense of clarity!