Kansas City, Missouri 12/31/2011
* Neighborhood exploring as usual. Last day of the year was exceptionally warm and good.
Keats, Kansas 2011
* I spent my christmas afternoon exploring the outskirts of Keats with Joe Johnson. He is a really great photographer and overall great person. After looking at photographs of Manhattan in his “Local Weather” series, I had to get in touch with him and share some beers/ideas/thoughts. Photographing my home town has always been a challenge for me. When you live somewhere for so long, you often forget how to look at it. Mentally, it is hard to overcome the preconceived ideas/images that have been molded into our minds. Telling your brain to look at something in a different light is so hard to do. After looking at Joe’s photographs of Manhattan, a new light was shed on how I viewed my home town.
Hong Kong 2005
* It was my first summer out of high school and everything felt good. Pippy let me borrow a camera from the high school and let me take it overseas. I still can’t believe she let me do that. I remember having around 5 rolls of Ilford Delta 400, 2 rolls of Ilford Delta 3200 and a few rolls of hand rolled Kodak TMAX400. I scanned these from the prints.
Arma, Kansas 2011
My Dining Room - Kansas City, Missouri 2011
*My roommate Bobby was recently involved in a car accident on i-70. His vehicle was totalled after hitting a car that wasn’t quite pulled over on the shoulder of the highway. He has fully recovered since the accident.
Arma, Kansas 2011
* I spent my thanksgiving in Arma, Kansas. Lexi’s grandfather worked in the coal mines in and around Crawford county. Being in towns such as Arma, where the main industry has ceased, makes me wonder what will become of them in the next 20 years.
I think I will take some time off in the short future and drive around Kansas for a couple of weeks/months documenting these places. Kickstarter?
Kansas City, Missouri 2011
