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Remembering the sleeplessness of too hot summer nights. Car rides, train rides. Hotel windows, motel beds. The rumbling of an air conditioner through the night. Light leaks in colors more saturate...
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Lately I’ve been missing NYC in a strange and completely surprising way. Maybe it’s remembering the summers there, so bad they were somehow good, the city half empty and the weather utterly...
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This week was… what can I say? Dynamic. Surreal. The hills erupting in sudden, wild flames and all of us being sent home from work early, back to LA where everything is dry, parched, but not yet...
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What do I mean by top five? A few weeks ago when I started on this project and challenged myself to finish a roll of film a week for my personal photographs, I assumed it meant the “best” five...
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Several quiet photos from around the neighborhood–sun shadows and farmer’s market flowers and a young girl busking for what seemed like the first time, too shy to step out from behind the garbage can....
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It’s beginning to sink in that summer is coming to a close. Last night the sun set not as I was driving fast along the 110, as I’d anticipated, but later, nearly two hours later, as I sat on her porch...
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Last night I had a few hours to kill and found myself on one of my favorite blocks in all of LA. The evening was airy and cool and I parked my car up off of Franklin near all the bungalows and palm...
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I’m writing now in the midst of a heat wave and remembering fondly the cooler days of summer, even just a few short weeks ago. The back garden is yellowing around the edges but still kicking. Fat...
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I kept a list of notes in my phone throughout this week. Reminders of my tarot reading and my burned out brake light and the lyrics to Kodachrome and the name of a very good tequila. I thought I’d...
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A few extras from this summer’s wealth of photographs–leftovers that didn’t quite make it into each week’s top five, but which have stuck with me as some sort of imprint of these past few months....
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