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Tag: Torn

  • Last Chance Lost

    T he original image is ancient. I was playing around during a snowstorm in New Mexico. It was one of my picture a day images. It’s shredded newspaper. Everything came together at once. I need to make a picture and I had a new shredder that I wanted to test. So, I shredded up a…

  • Run Down

    Yep. In the middle of nothing. This place is in Hollygrove about as far removed as it can be from the rest of the city and still be located in Orleans Parish. In fact, if you look to the right and across the railroad tracks, that’s Jefferson Parish and another world. Although… this house is…

  • A Little Turned Around

    I’ve been posting a lot on various social media sites. This is an effort to step up my  online presence. I’m not sure that it really matters because nobody really wants to do anything with pictures except look at them and, er, “borrow” them. Looking at them is great. “Borrowing” them is not. I’m telling…

  • The Chair

    The whole place looks burnt out. It isn’t. It’s just a little wet from a late storm. But, it was pretty heavily flooded during and after Hurricane Katrina. This neighborhood sat in flood water from August 29 until sometime in mid-November. Just about like my neighborhood.  I have no idea what was in that water,…

  • What It Is

    I always hesitate publishing too many pictures that look like this. I’m afraid that I’ll give you the wrong impression of our city. I realized that I really can’t. New Orleans is divided in many ways. Financially. Culturally. Historically. Racially. By neighborhood. By streetcar lines. This was reflected by the neighborhoods that stayed dry in…

  • Really Torn and Frayed

    When I saw this scene, I first saw the red graffiti. Next, I saw the couch. Finally, the wall. What I was seeing just seemed to click into my brain. Red. White. Blue. What a weird visual statement. But, it was real. Once I started working on the picture in post production, I saw something…

  • And, Finally…

    This is about it for my experimental series. I have one more picture, which is of a man reworked in this style. It seems to be quite powerful. I’ll show that to you tomorrow. Then, it’s time to move on… at least for now. As you may recall, I’ve been working on a long form…

  • Broken Down

    So. I’m back working in Central City. When I follow my “rules” of making pictures, it seems that even the most abandoned, torn and frayed places look somewhat attractive. And that, my friends, can be a problem with this kind of documentation. A big problem. Unless you open this picture up and look at it…