I love big cities. Not a big fan of people. I appreciate them, of course, as an anthropologist might, as foci of social forces, each an individual, made by their circumstances and choices, always interesting. But interacting with more than one person at a time is stressful for me. Ironically, big cities reduce the need to interact with others.
I love culture, especially pop culture. There's so much more culture, by definition, in a big city than a small one, or a rural area such as I live in now. I love where I live now, but for other reasons than the art and artifacts it presents me. In a big city the cultural litter of the many fed my photography.
Graffiti was a staple subject for me. Literal litter too, which is itself a part of culture. You'll notice examples of this elsewhere in this portfolio.
These people-less pictures of buildings and sidewalks, graffiti and litter, I call 'urban landscape' photography. I don't know if that's an actual genre of photography. It probably is and I'm abusing the term. But for years, this was the kind of photography I practiced. Quiet. Unserious. Observational. With the advent of cell phone cams and social media I think this style of photography has become more popular.
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