New York, 2013
San Francisco, 2014
Boston, 2018
Oakland, 2015
New York, 2013
San Francisco, 2014
Puget Sound, 2019
Los Angeles, 2020
New York, 2015
On The Road, 2014
San Francisco, 2015
Chicago, 2017
New York, 2018
New Orleans, 2017
Coney Island, 2012
Photography series.
35mm black and white film shot with a Leica M6.
This gallery features a rotating portfolio of images.
Last updated February, 2022.
...continue through the neon circus, now that dusk is falling, we will exit & return to a different world, one which we did not leave, but we must leave behind...
It can be funny how the passage of time can change how one looks at a photograph, or a series of photographs. These things we make, these slivers of time and space we steal forever, somehow still lack a complete sense of permanence. Like the photograph itself & what the full-frame excludes, our relationship to its content becomes subjective to time.
As I look back on this series now, I choose to show the times I would endeavor to create a portrait that was as much of the scene as its subject. It is both that these people interact with these places & how they are interacting. I feel at this time & point, the definition of being an 'American' is as fraught as ever, making the act of defining America in photographs very much about the relationship between the people & the place.
Some of these are friends, some of these are strangers, but it's this particular gallery as a whole that seems to be more about this iteration of the project, which I suppose is more akin to the idea of a society than anything.
—cs, 08/2021