Ain’t Exactly Clear

“There’s something happening here / But what it is ain’t exactly clear.” – FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH, by Buffalo Springfield

Sometimes a “slice of life” photo leaves us wondering what just happened the moment before, and what’s about to happen a moment later.

I like ambiguity like that, the kind that can draw us in and hold our attention a little longer.

Here are three of my street photographs, each of which seems to cry out for an explanatory title/caption.

🙂 🙂 🙂

Pandemic-Era Black & White Slideshow

America is at war with itself, brother against brother.

As in any war, truth is the first casualty. Complexities are reduced to black and white and rational discourse drowns in a sea of angry cliches.

Against this cultural backdrop I recently found myself leaching color from my photographs, as if attempting to mimic stark post-truth realities.

But black & white, I discovered, isn’t always black & white. Sometimes there are nuances. 256 shades of gray, to be exact.

🙂 🙂 🙂