Timeless Still House

Happy Pride Month!

Portraits with Cars #2

American soldiers have dressed in drag since at least World War I, and the military actually encouraged it. With women barred from frontline areas, men played female roles in theatrical shows put on to boost morale. The most famous example was Irving Berlin's "This Is the Army" (1942), where soldiers performed in full feminine costume for millions of viewers. The tradition continued through Vietnam, where soldiers staged drag shows to cope with stress and boredom. Historians note the irony that an institution which long banned gay and transgender service members openly embraced men dressing as women as one of its oldest and most beloved traditions.

A Través del Tiempo (Through Time)

Portraits with Cars #1

Charles “Teenie” Harris photography

Berry Gordy started with $800, a house in Detroit, and a dream. From that little building on West Grand Boulevard, Hitsville U.S.A., he built one of the greatest record labels the world has ever known. Motown wasn't just music; it was a movement. Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, The Jackson 5, all shaped by one man's vision. Gordy ran it like a factory and polished it like a diamond, creating a sound so good it crossed every color line on the radio dial. Decades later, that little house in Detroit still stands, and the music? It never stopped playing.

By the 90s, the trend died out as grunge and baggy clothing took over. The relaxed, oversized look of that decade was the complete opposite of the 80s, and showing off your midriff suddenly felt dated. It never really came back in a big way, mostly because of the cultural idea that male crop tops are too bold or feminine, even though by today's standards, it was just a shirt.

New York City, 1970s. Bankrupt, graffiti-scarred, and smoldering. Burned-out Bronx tenements stood beside neon-drenched Times Square vice dens, while garbage-lined streets and crumbling subways painted a city in freefall. Yet from the wreckage rose something unstoppable: punk thrashing out of CBGB, hip-hop born in Bronx parking lots, artists colonizing downtown lofts for pennies. Dangerous, raw, and impossibly alive, NYC in its most broken era was also its most creative.

Family portrait #1

Lovers of Another Era #2

Young Bob Marley

Lovers of Another Era #1