Tag: 2019 Arles

How many people climbed those stairs over the last two thousand years? What were they there for? What did they see? What was their mood?

An intersection of both the natural and artificial, and the old and new. The potted plants attest to our connection with nature; those plants growing in the cracks in the wall or on the tiles of the roof attest to the resilience and persistence of nature. The aerials and satellite dish describe a progression of…

For the urbanite our distance from nature seems to continually grow. The replacement of green-spaces with buildings, the automobile that separates us from the air and weather around us, the use of light bulbs to decouple us from the rhythms of the sun and moon. The balance is shifting away from the real towards the…

I’m sure it can be successfully argued that the world doesn’t need another picture of a street light. Yet, there it was and up came the urge to photograph it. In my theory of photographic process, when starting a new project or arriving at a new place, it is usually necessary to take as many…