One of my on-again-off-again projects that I have been working on for a few years is a collection of photographs of Kansas called Sunflower Blues. I have a loose framework for what it will look like in the end and I have enjoyed adding to it here and there when I have time for a short trip and want to stretch my photography muscles a bit. The photographs in the Blues capture the strange and colorful side of the state of Kansas.
These are the latest additions from this past weekend…
I’ve begun working on prints for a group show this summer here in Omaha.
It feels good to start making large-ish prints (16x20”) of images from my Great Plains survey. Every image starts with a small work print to check color and make sure that everything is cohesive from print to print. Once everything looks good, a full size print is created. I will then mat and frame the print at a later date prior to the exhibition.
Check back for more information about the show as well as more behind-the-scenes details of the nuts-and-bolts of how creating an exhibition works.
Post title: Superchunk - Endless Summer
I headed south as March turned to April, looking for photographs in West Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas to add to my ever-growing documentation of the Great Plains region. The project now has a title - West of Here - and I’ll be showing selections from it starting in July here in Omaha.
Now it’s time to start printing and framing…
Post title: Guy Clark - Fort Worth Blues
More photographs of St. Joseph, Missouri from two days before the New Year.
St. Joe is one of those places that keeps drawing me back. There is so much history in this old Missouri River city, with a lot of largely untouched and un-gentrified areas. This suits me as a photographer, but I’m always saddened by how mistreated most of it is, and how all new development is focused on an expanding strip of sprawl to the east.
As William Least Heat-Moon wrote, “The future should grow from the past, not obliterate it.” And it shouldn’t just ignore the past until it vanishes in a pile of rubble, either.
