Category Archives: Weekly Photo Challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: Converge

Photos are visual spaces where shapes and lines, objects, and people come together. The palm of her hand flies up to the sky. http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/converge/ Along the way, they also force the concrete and the abstract to converge: objects and landscapes are still themselves, yet already a little more (and a little less) than what I’dContinue reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Converge”

Weekly Photo Challenge: Extra, Extra

BUZZ…This week’s WordPress Photo Challenge asks us to share a photograph with something extra; something with unexpected detail that makes that image all the more special. For me … the unexpected detail is in this man’s expression. The sadness embedded in his concentration. This is a photograph of my friend “Buzz” writing poetry outside aContinue reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Extra, Extra”

Weekly Photo Challenge – Room

A classroom in a village school in Hastings, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Sierra Leone is struggling to get back on its feet after a devastating civil war that lasted more than a decade. I took these photographs in May 2014.The civil war ended in 2002.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside

Where do we go when we die on the inside? Do we rupture our attachment to family? Our daily bread? Our ability to mimic breath? Jean-Michel Basquiat died of a heroin overdose at the age of 27 in 1988. http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/weekly-photo-challenge-inside-2/

Weekly Photo Challenge: Perspective

Over the years we age and change our perspective. Through the looking glass. http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/03/07/photo-challenge-perspective/

Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape | Broken Shell

In my left hand I am holding a broken shell. In the foreground the figure of a man is a blur. What is his purpose? Why is he unclear? Is he looking for escape routes above the moving sea? Am I beside him?