Side Notes from Kris Graves Pt. I

A photograph taken in Florence by the one and only +Kris Graves. I wish we were there.
+KG has his blog running at www.resolvingpower.tumblr.com, so do pay him a visit.

Of Windows and Heaps

Another corner being torn down behind the BND construction site in Berlin.

New York Portrait Series - Installation I

These are the last two portraits I made in the NYC Polaroid Portrait series,
of the one and only Reginald Leon and Sir Christopher Burke*.


*Many thanks for trusting me with the studio, sir. You made this body of work possible.

Pairs of Chairs

Last announcement of the week. Long time friend and writer, Marina Garcia-Vasquez and I have put out another small book in our Common Language series. Travertine is a small newsprint edition which will soon be available at a few select shops in Berlin. Images and info on how to acquire one to follow at the top of next week.

You can find out what Marina is working on here www.pairsofchairs.wordpress.com

Side Notes from Andreas Gehrke Pt. II

I suggest you keep your other ear to the ground for Andreas' forthcoming book, Topographie des Terrors. It's a thoughtfully put-together series of photographs from the former site of the Nazi Party's Gestapo headquarters in Berlin.
(Note: The above image is unrelated to the series)
Drop the man a line www.andreasgehrke.de

A Corner Shaped Corner

Chausseestrasse, Mitte, Berlin, Summer 2007

Side Notes from Andreas Gehrke Pt. I

Keep an ear to the ground for the Abiol/Gehrke, New York/Berlin neighborhood spaces project in 2011. And have a look at Andreas' work here www.andreasgehrke.de

Public Space as Palette

I think it's fair to say that you could easily spend more than a quarter of your life underground as a pedestrian in New York. These surfaces. Glossy blacks. Silvers. Industrial oranges and blues. Only here.

Flagey, Ixelles, Brussels

The former National Institute for Radio Broadcasting in Brussels, Flagey hall was built in the late 1930's. I was fortunate enough to have the place to myself one morning to make these photographs.

From the steps of Flagey

Ghost Cities

The more I saw of these abandoned developments, the more they began to resemble ancient ruins. A reminder of that connection between ambitious nations and fallen empires.

Gold Bangles

Conjuring

An abandoned catholic school in Brooklyn where I spent a day wandering from room to room, recording traces of its past - broken floor tiles, stacks of desks, life-size statues of saints.

Chausseestrasse circa 1964

A view of the Chausseestrasse crossing into Wedding ca. 1964