cat and horse

a little selection of pics from our wanderings around PR.

el yunque

we walked around the trails in el yunque.

santurce pda 15

looking for records on ponce de leon, in san juan, puerto rico.
i heard that la gran discoteca was the spot for vynal, santurce, parada 15.
all the stars of fania and top hits had appeared there at one time or another. its legendary.
and also history. it had been closed down for a few months, all packed up and gone away.

kaala

returned to la fresqueria for this one. kaala was with jetest in SD.
thankfully i was using my rollie at that moment.
i swear to the gods, what ever you are, i will never go didg. and thats that.

Bill Ross

bgfa

bert green.

sand doll hair

a portrait of mathew and michael on the beach in the watsonville area of california.

jonah

eric and deb's son. photographed in my new studio, elysian park.

coalesce

family portrait of eric, deborah and their son jonah.

road side tree

some trees by the side of the road in elysian park.

peter shire in studio

peter with one of his signiture creations, a chair.

labor ready

mostly undocumented immigrants make themselves available for work on the fringes of big box construction superstore parking lots. outcast from society, predominantly latino and well below the poverty line.

my approach in this set was to describe the undocumented work force in a way that does not explain how they interact with their work environment, but to show their physical appearance, their surface. i refrained from close ups and deviating from the formula of full body shots and spacing in order to describe the topography and subtle continuum.
general communication and contact with this community by the public seems to be avoided.
the irony is that the community is known of and called upon if needed, but otherwise ignored and stigmatized if not.

for this series i used fijifilm provia 100F 4x5 color transparency

not from India

i used the 4x5 with some stobes and shot through a slit of foam core against this neat mural of the taj mahal for luke and teresa on their very special day. i think these are my favs

echo park avenue

these were taken over the period of a month or so. a set of portraits from echo park avenue.