New Lens

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.

Photos by Lisa Scheer, All Rights Reserved

From the "Waiting" Series

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.