Archive for September, 2009
Sights and Sounds
A glimpse, or a taste…
4:00pm, Brooklyn, NY, the 7th Ave stop on the Q train.
As I descended the stairs I could immediately tell there was something amiss: it wasn’t difficult.
The normally quiet station was filled with grumbling occupants, milling about, threading the open doors of the oddly dormant train. Having previously experienced a near panicked crowd on the Staten Island Ferry thanks to a police macing I wasn’t eager to join the masses, but in New York, a show is a show, and so I lingered on the stairs, ready for a quick escape should something tragic occur.
25 minutes later, with the crowd’s ranks further swollen, I left the station for greener pastures… or rather, running trains.
The things we do for our art…
getting the lights right, in all white, on a winter's photo shoot
Ah, the things that we do for our art!
Sometimes, just sometimes, one looks back on an image and thinks… “damn, this had better have been worth it.”
After having recently seen the fruits (coming soon) of the rather humiliating labor that brought this image to life, I can now say, it was definitely worth it.
I’m told that if you can’t laugh at yourself, you really have no right to laugh at others – which is something I’m absolutely not ready to give up.