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remembering Carl Weber

remembering Carl Weber

Wer reitet so spΓ€t durch Nacht und Wind? Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind; Er hat den Knaben wohl in dem Arm, Er faßt ihn sicher, er hΓ€lt ihn warm. “Mein Sohn, was birgst du so bang dein Gesicht?” – “Siehst, Vater, du den ErlkΓΆnig nicht? Den ErlenkΓΆnig mit Kron und Schweif?” – “Mein […]

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Wired and Tired: How Berkeley’s Data Warriors Became Magazine Ready Revolutionaries

Wired and Tired: How Berkeley’s Data Warriors Became Magazine Ready Revolutionaries

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn art introduced me to the Revolution! Albert Einstein Nobody sets out to document the end of the world with a camera. But there I was at Berkeley, atΒ The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) and DataRescueSFBAy hackathon where the word “data” gets thrown around like it […]

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Space is substance

The lobby at Bing Concert Hall is all soaring glass and clean California geometry, the kind of space that makes you wonder if anyone’s actually allowed to breathe wrong in here. I’m here to photograph which means I’m basically a voyeur, trying to freeze what shouldn’t be frozen: movement, breath, sculpture, sound, the precise moment […]

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Space is substance
SFO Protest

SFO Protest

Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us. Once we had a country and we thought it fair, Look in the atlas and you’ll find it there: We cannot go there now, […]

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January 22, 2017 · Resistance

Women’s March, Oakland

Women’s March, Oakland

Oakland Women’s March, 2017. So here’s the thing about photographing a protest: you’re already lying. The minute you lift that camera, you’re making choices about what matters, what’s worth preserving, what truth, if there is such a thing, you’re selling. It’s a hustle, like everything else. But sometimes it’s a hustle worth committing to. Oakland, […]

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Bodies Against the Architecture of Dread

Bodies Against the Architecture of Dread

It’s Inauguration Day, right? Day one of the Trump Era…Β  So naturally everyone’s freaking out, reciting founding values like scripture, as if Thomas Jefferson’s ghost gives two shits about your a cappella group. But that’s not what’s happening in these frames. What’s happening is bodies moving through sacred architecture like they’re trying to shake loose […]

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to make an end is to make a beginning

to make an end is to make a beginning

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding There’s something pure and merciless about that stop sign planted there on the tracks in Davenport like some bureaucratic punctuation mark that wandered off the […]

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