Quotidian New York: September 24, 2008

I was not in a particularly pleasant mood and all I saw around me that day was trash.

And then there was tidy, organized, responsible trash.

And the ones that got away...

My walks and rides through everyday New York, mostly in Brooklyn, sometimes elsewhere.

A sketchbook of photos and movies..from photography to witnessing, from space to place.

Reading Georges Perec, Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, I have to reaffirm the value of observation in the sphere of the everyday - some of quite casual, and none of it objective - as the first step in creating social change.

Reading Marc Auge's Non-Places: Introduction to An Anthropology of Supermodernity, it's easy to recognize the human specifics, traces and personalizing that occurs in places and non-places alike. Places tell stories.

Hey! these are original images (except for war photographs from Jan 15, 2009), so please contact me if you think you might be thinking about downloading anything. My photos and movies are, in fact, licensed. See license info link on this page. Thanks.

Quotidian New York

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

In the subway, in the hospital cafe, and on the street, Brooklyn & Manhattan.

Trash, trash and more trash, Brooklyn

Revisiting the Washington Ave. Pharmacy Window - A Fall Display

creative commons

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