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.
