photographs by Elliot Erwitt and Alessandra Sanguinetti

Roland Barthes Would Understand
geeky photo stuff

Claudia Pearson is one of our artists at Umbrage. This isn't from A Tribal Alphabet, but I pulled it from her website.
This is called Utica.
(That's where I live)

Pitter pat

photograph by Keith Auerbach

Think about it, reflect, now... lets go together.

Angela Davis: Abolition Democracy and Global Politics
Presented by Barnard College
Lecture
Thursday, October 30 at 7:00 p.m.
The Great Hall
7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue
Free and open to the general public

Angela Davis, a noted activist during the 1960s, was at one time on the FBI's Most Wanted List and eventually spent 18 months in jail and on trial. Since well before the publication of her feminist classic Women, Race, and Class in 1981, she has been concerned about the interconnections among issues, as well as the connections among peoples around the world. In "Abolition Democracy and Global Politics" Davis will present a new and wide-ranging vision influenced by W.E.B. DuBois's "Black Reconstruction."

Patrice Lumumba
A politician dedicated to growth and equality, murdered by people who feared his strength and knowledge.

A sweetie came to visit me

And he left a little lady hidden in my books.

Young Love

Swoop

Photograph by Caitlin Arnold

Summer summer summertime

Saturday afternoon

The one day I don't bring my camera I witness...

An ACTUAL dungeons and dragons battle at prospect park. Not like a tournament or anything like that, an ACTUAL group of battlers that fight with capes and padded clubs. It was, amazing.

A car full of zombies on the train. Blood and and all.

A Milwaukee kid with the biggest smile in the world.

And to top it off, a three year old boy pointing a fake gun at me and saying POP POP POP. Yeah, he shot me, and yeah it was fucked up.

Sometimes...I just can't believe I live here.

Nollywood

Photography by Pieter Hugo
Nollywood... like Nigerian Hollywood or Bollywood Ya know?

Giant Blow Up Pedafile

Spiderman is creepy

Hey assholes, stop getting other people sick.

Noise

I was dancing, she was smoking.

Lady Birds

I don't remember where I met them or what their names were, but they were beautiful.

I also love...

This debutante

Jie-Song ...

...always teaching me something new
In Chinese:
Singley would probably be

Xing Li 星里 / inside a star
Or could be
Xin Li 心里 / inside the heart

how cute

I love...

Kandiss and Nina

I love...

... Alec Soth

Eight Train rides later...

Cold Saturdays spent by myself doing what I do best.

Above: Photographs by Alessandra Sanguinetti.

Sanguinetti is one of my favorite photographers. I went to her exhibit expecting to see older work, and was shocked when I saw the girls above had grown into adults. She has photographed these two cousins, Guille and Belinda, for the last four years.

I'm especially interested in stories of changing relationships and Sanguinetti's delicate way of photographing these two left me in the 20 x 20 gallery for over an hour.

Photographs above by Joshua Lutz.

Some more beauties I came a cross at Clampart

Photograph above my Susan Meiselas

I spent over 3 hours looking at her work. Her work documenting Nicaragua is outstanding, and though I think that International Center of Photography could have done a better job presenting the exhibition, the video's and the photographs are incredibly moving.

In Brooklyn...

...flowers and trees grow out of cobblestone.

My Mornings with Tea

When I get to work I drink ginger tea, and every morning I get a little boost from the brew.

Musica

Came across this piece of gold today.