The Definition of a Face

Walker Evans

Milan, April 2017

This photograph of mine was paired with a poem from George Ella Lyon titled Breaking over at The Oxford American today. The moving poem is about the grief process of losing a mother, specifically two years into that grieving process. Sometimes I question “coincidences”, I wonder if there is some type of Spirit of the Universe at play. I lost my mother to cancer in November 2014 and this photograph and several from the working edit of The Florida Heartland were made in the following months after her passing, a real acute phase of grieving her loss. I’ve been open about the therapeutic value of making The Heartland pictures in response to her passing, so needless to say when I saw the content of the poem I was bit taken aback - then I shot a little glance upwards.

Larry Towell

Dave Jordano

Carlton

Luigi Ghirri

paradise palms.  2017.

gelatin silver print, photobook – 1988-1992

Susan Lipper. From Grapevine

Umeå, Feb 2017

Saul Leiter,  Ana, New York, 1950–1959.

Edward Weston, Armco Steel, Ohio  1922.

Edward Henry Weston, Plaster Works, Los Angeles, 1925.