Visual

Meandering

2010-10-01T14:12:00.000-07:00

Man in Laundromat

2010-09-23T18:02:00.001-07:00

Wrightsville Beach

2010-08-16T14:00:00.000-07:00

Detail from a Store Window

2010-08-12T18:01:00.000-07:00

Wrightsville Beach

2010-08-01T14:17:00.000-07:00

Field at Dusk

2010-07-15T11:12:00.000-07:00

Portrait

2010-07-13T16:32:00.000-07:00

Portrait in Reidsville

2010-07-13T12:02:00.000-07:00

Portrait

2010-07-10T08:04:00.000-07:00

Geometries

2010-07-08T12:29:00.000-07:00

Weekend

2010-07-05T18:02:00.000-07:00

Glenwood

2010-06-29T14:06:00.000-07:00

This is a portrait for a series I'm working on called "Glenwood," about a neighborhood in Greensboro. I'm in the process of gathering individual stories from people who live there, and will share those stories in the future.

Restaurant on East Market Street

2010-05-18T06:34:00.000-07:00

Reception for the Mill Village Project

2010-05-17T08:34:00.000-07:00

Photo Courtesy of the Davis Family

Photo Courtesy of the Murray Family

"The Mill Village Project: Everyday Life in Pictures" in on view now at The Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro. The show will be paired with additional work on the mill villages collected by public history students at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. An opening reception at the Community Foundation is planned for Thursday, May 27, from 5:30 to 7 PM. Also, Creative & Live, a web magazine, features some of my work today. Thanks Emma!

New Lens

2010-04-20T14:41:00.000-07:00

After a lot of consideration, I finally went ahead and bought a used 60 mm lens for my Hasselblad. I tested it out late last week, and these are the results. The images were shot in the vicinity of High Point Road and West Lee Street, in Greensboro.

Trip to South Carolina

2010-04-11T13:46:00.000-07:00

Waiting

2010-04-05T15:08:00.000-07:00

Yucatan Peninsula

2010-04-02T17:42:00.000-07:00

Untitled

2010-03-25T11:22:00.000-07:00

The Strip Malls Project

2010-03-17T12:10:00.000-07:00

Molded Plastic Chairs

2010-03-16T17:14:00.000-07:00

Housing Subdivision

2010-03-12T06:35:00.000-08:00

Talking to Strangers

2010-03-11T12:02:00.000-08:00

I am shooting more environmental portraits lately. One reason is that I'm trying to satisfy an assignment for a class I'm taking at the Center for Documentary Studies, at Duke University. Photographing complete strangers is both terrifying and fantastic; you have to get buy-in from the participants, condense a lot of visual information quickly, and pray for a good outcome.

Sullivan Street

2010-02-25T11:47:00.000-08:00

Reidsville

2010-02-16T08:08:00.000-08:00

Gas Station Interior

2010-02-10T06:50:00.000-08:00

Seen in the interiors of two separate gas stations on East Bessemer Avenue this week.

Dim Sum

2009-11-15T19:22:00.000-08:00

This is the view from an upper-floor, dim sum restaurant in Beijing. Okay, cliche image but I've never made one like this before.

Beijing

2009-11-13T17:27:00.000-08:00

Here are some recent images from the trip to Beijing last month.

Trip highlights: Beijing's 798 Art District, an artist community occupying the site of several decommissioned military factories in the Chaoyang District. I saw a great show at 798 Photo Gallery called Family Stuff, by documentary photographers Huang Qinjun and Ma Hongjie. Another highlight: Beijing's hutongs, centuries-old neighborhoods set inside a warren of narrow, dusty alleyways, a kind of parallel universe to the surrounding luxury high-rises and car-choked streets. Beijing's pollution problem was a big negative: read more about it from the Atlantic Monthly's James Fallows here.

Headed to Beijing

2009-10-17T19:23:00.000-07:00

I am headed to Beijing in a few days, and bringing along one camera - a Leica M7 - and plenty of rolls of Kodak Portra film. The Leica allows me a spontaneity that I don't typically have with my Hasselblad; there's a formality and deliberativeness that comes with using the Hasselblad. I'm looking forward to shaking things up a little visually, and breaking some of my reflexive patterns of seeing. I imagine I'll be stumbling around Beijing most of the time, jet-lagged and weirdly overwhelmed. The rangefinder might translate that perceptual overload well.

Social Hall

2009-10-17T18:54:00.000-07:00

Army/Navy Store

2009-10-17T08:46:00.001-07:00

Hookah Lounge

2009-10-16T10:15:00.000-07:00

The Mill Village Project

2009-10-16T05:54:00.000-07:00

I am in the process of putting "The Mill Village Project: Everyday Life in Pictures" on my website. Finally. It will be an edited version of the show that appeared at the Greensboro Historical Museum in May.

From the "Waiting" Series

2009-10-15T08:49:00.000-07:00

This is part of a longer-term project called "Waiting," a series of images that reveal something about the nature and identity of place. Most of the photographs were made in and around the city of Greensboro, North Carolina, the place where I live. Most of the images are of interiors of small, privately-owned businesses found in aging, commercial strip shopping centers: barbershops, ice cream parlors, laundromats. My hope is that, over time, this exploration will yield a kind of narrative, an edited vision about what remains of Greensboro's regional character. I plan to include environmental portraits as well. A more complete version of this series is available here.

Getting Started

2009-10-15T05:49:00.000-07:00

For some time now, I've been interested in creating a new photography blog, a place to catalogue and organize some of the projects I'm working on in Greensboro. I thought this blog would also be a good place to upload some of the photographs I make on the road. So, greetings from the Jersey shore.