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Tonight at an auditorium in the High Museum I sat right behind Norman Seeff. What’s left of his shoulder-length hair jutted every which way and when he rose to go onstage after being introduced, I was surprised that this was the photographer and documentary filmmaker I had come to see. His talk was about insights […]
These are iPhone photos taken during and after seeing an exhibit of cell phone photos. The photographers had been given a shot list and it was wonderful to see the all different interpretations in that teeny, limited format. Although one photographer said she was disappointed that others had enhanced their photos before […]
Today I stayed for the rain at the pool. Just moved to a table under an umbrella that mostly shielded me, my book and my iPhone camera. I was disappointed when it tapered off because it was such a different pool experience but then the light afterward… magnificent.
(I was taking a look through random images to see what I wanted to put here tonight and this one jumped out as the one. Imagine my surprise when I saw it was taken exactly four years ago today.) I was so happy to have caught this moment in time. I took it through a […]
I made this video for my grandma’s memorial service. I loved my grandma. And she loved me. When I was four we moved a block and a half away from my grandma and grandpa on the south side of Chicago. They lived on Wallace and we lived on Parnell — 115th and Halsted was the closest […]
(Photo taken August 17, 2008. More here.) My cousin Danae (who is actually my niece but “aunt” doesn’t work for us because we’re friends) came from Greece with her friend Galini in 2008 to find masters programs here in the states. They’re now enrolled in Northeastern in Chicago. This photo is from a series we […]
I never went to the Mexican restaurant where I took this picture because it seemed like a place that college kids would go for cookie-cutter tacos and pitchers of Bud. But, ah, once it closed it became interesting. More and more interesting as time went on until finally I had to go take its picture before someone […]