A lot of the time, I experience New York City as an intriguing arrangement of materials, shapes, and lines. Our pad is near Broadway but, for me, infrastructure has the starring role in this metropolis. Co-starring: topography and architecture. Speci
In my quest to live more of my life away from digital technology… 1. I’ve been hand drawing 2. myself hand drawing 3. in an invented room 4. on a large sketch pad that I thought would be good for quick studies. But I’ve spent hou
Naturally, a tree changes with the seasons. Though now the seasons have changed, unnaturally. An ordinary scene from the past is made more beautiful by having become extraordinary. 1 + 3 / February 2021 2 + 4 / April 2021
Phones, phones, phones in a few of their forms and states and guises. When I was young, you had to go *to* the phone (in private) or go *find* one (in public). Now you can't ever get away from them (or understand what privacy even means). And yet...h
Photographically speaking, I'm acting like the teenager I used to be: film camera with a focus on people in my life. In this case, the delightful @jim.moske. 1) in contemplation at The Brain, Hamilton — captured with a borrowed medium-format B
After five years of photographing Stelco Tower from below, it was exhilarating to reverse the direction of my view. I'm grateful to First Real Properties / Yale Canada, the building owners, for the invitation to visit the highest vacant floor, which
And I'm thinking, "Damn, if these walls could talk" (oh-oh-oh) / Well, they'd be like (oh-oh-oh) / Shit is crazy, right? (Oh-oh-oh) — Walls Could talk / Halsey. . . . . #hamont #hamiltonstreets #foundsituations_mag #thisaintartschool
March in NYC was a delightful month of further urban adventures with moments of great light and insights: 1. The Bronx 2. Macombs Dam Bridge, between Manhattan and The Bronx 3. Central Park, Manhattan 4. Chelsea, Manhattan 5 and 6. Washington Heights
CALLing all citizens of or visitors to Hamilton: Has Stelco Tower played a tiny or significant part in your life or consciousness at some point in the 5 decades it has stood in the centre of Hamilton? Do you or does someone you know have a memory, ex
Looking at Manhattan with @jim.moske. Past, present, and future. . . . . #newyorkcity #brooklyn #redhook #allcitiesarebeautiful #somewheremagazine #subjectivelyobjective #documentingspace
Save. The. Date! The launch for my photo book Stelco Tower: A Love Story is Saturday April 29th 7 to 9 pm at Rooney's photo book shop (@shoprooneys 724 Main St. E.) in Hamilton, Ontario. This self-published book not only commemorates Stelco Tower as
Welcome to the Ambitious City! Hamilton is undergoing an urban renaissance not unlike the one that gave us the handsomely modern Stelco Tower at Jackson Square fifty years ago. This time around, cranes encircle this central building —cranes tha
In 1973, the rate of inflation in Canada was 7.49%, Rice-A-Roni was served up around the nation, and a very special building was completed in Hamilton for all to admire and deeply love. Happy 50th Constructionyear, Stelco Tower! Look at you, steel st
Signs that light up our lives with their peculiar commonplace beauty deserve to be shared, mailed, and collected...as photographic postcards, of course. Sunrise Market CAR WASH DRY CLEANING LAUNDROMAT didn't make the cut for my HAMILTON Postcards SIG
In Hamilton, is it any surprise that there's a yellow stallion perpetually rearing over the sidewalk on Barton Street East? Or that this horse was tough to capture...in a photograph, at least? The light was always behind it when I went by and the use
If you want some Local Colour on your walls, three of my photos are available @lendemocratic as unframed 12 x 18" prints (on Canson Rag Photographique matte paper, printed @smokestack.studio), signed and each in a series of 5. These images are p
Look, I just want to lay all my cards on the table. And you can pick them up in Hamilton @thecityandthecitybooks @lendemocratic @royal_flush_shop @girlonthewinghamilton and @shoprooneys . Not all shops have all packs but hunting is half the fun. HAMI