Sleepers | Skateboard
October 5, 2017
The first in a trio of images of people sleeping in public places. I’m always amazed at the places people can sleep. I can’t sleep on an airplane. I have trouble sleeping in a car if someone else is driving whereas if I’m driving I feel like I could fall asleep at any given moment ironically enough–strange that now that I say it out loud but it’s absolutely the truth.
Hotels and I are no better. I’ll spend a night in a hotel room staring at the ceiling wishing I was in my own bed. I can never get comfortable, the pillows are always to stiff or the mattress is to soft or the sheets are to scratchy. I actually slept once on a train en route from Venice to Milan. When I woke up someone had stolen my mobile phone, my wallet, all my cash (which wasn’t in my wallet) and a giant chocolate bar I had eaten half off. The thief had been kind enough to leave my passport and the bag of carrots I had been snacking on. I understand the carrots but the passport was a bit of a surprise. Regardless I’ll never do that again. Fuck sleeping on trains.
Sleepers | Skateboard shot on my Leica M7 with the 35mm Summicron on Kodak Tri-X 400 +1.