"It's funny how one can explore something that was once open and lived through without a second thought yet years later, its whole meaning has changed and has tasted time in a whole different way." ~Armando Torres
Since I have nothing new to post because I'm having one of those weekends, I'll leave you with perhaps one of the funniest pieces of Banksy graffiti I've come across lately. For those of you who don't know who Banksy is, I'll give you a little history lesson. Banksy appeared on the London underground scene in 1992 as a free hand graffiti artist who slowly graduated to using stencils to produce some of his greatest work. Most of his pieces have some sort of anti-establishment theme, many of them featuring rats delivering a political or social commentary. So enjoy!
I was 6 years old when my father first handed me a Pentax A1000 35mm SLR. We were on a beach in Cape Cod and he was teaching me how to focus on a ship in the distance, bobbing on the horizon of the Atlantic.
Twenty two years later I still have, and shoot with, that Pentax. I’ve since upgraded and added a Sony a100 DSLR to my collection as well as adopting a Mamiya RB67 medium format portrait camera but my love of photography hasn’t changed much since the first time I saw, on paper, what I had seen through my lens.
The bulk of my work the last few years has focused on abandoned structures, specifically mental institutions and state schools.
"People are like the abandoned buildings you explore, just in an ever changing way. There are moments and spaces in our lives that feel just like the photos you take, and then those same spaces get filled with just one elegant find and you forget about the morbid beauty of the building and find something else."
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