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Demotion/Promotion
2023-04-14 00:28:07 UTC
Demotion/Promotion, Los Angeles 2022 I don’t know that I need to address my absence. On the off-chance, dear reader, that you’ve been wondering what’s happened to me or felt concerned for my well-being, I can only thank you for your thoughts. I’ll use the same canned excuses as others–there was…

(Intermission)
2021-08-18 00:09:46 UTC
Duality, Los Angeles 2018 I’m finally back in Los Angeles after two months in Stockholm. And it’s heartbreaking. From the second I got off the plane and needed to get though passport control, I was smacked in the face with the brutal reality of how utterly run-down our infrastructure is.…

Thought the looking glass
2020-03-28 05:26:28 UTC
Through the looking glass, Palm Springs 2018 After the first week of quarantine there’s an interesting emotional dichotomy at play. But this is about more than Covid 19 and quarantine so let me back time up a few weeks, to a morning I woke-up, completely disoriented, crying my eyes out.…

My love, my life
2020-02-24 04:24:05 UTC
My love my life, Los Angeles 2019 Valentine’s Day has come and gone and while I write about a lot of different subjects here I rarely, if ever mention how much my wife means to me. Anna Maria and I have been connected at the hip since 1998. Those 20…

Relax
2020-02-18 20:55:56 UTC
Relax, Los Angeles 2019 When I still lived in Sweden, this was always the worst time of the year. Christmas had come and gone. New Years had come and gone. It was neither winter nor spring. It would snow and then the temperature would rise and the snow would melt…

Alternative realities
2019-10-10 05:16:39 UTC
Alternative Realities, LA, 2018 I think communication has been hacked… Not all communication of course, but masses of it, especially when it comes to what is actually happening in the world. I’m not talking about Russian Facebook ads or the 2016 election hacking, I’m talking about the root of the…

Look here
2019-09-30 23:33:27 UTC
Look Here, Los Angeles, 2018 I’m fighting the impulse that people–a vast majority of people by my humble reckoning–are not capable of deciding what is in their best interest. Maybe my attitude is a product of the twenty-four-hour-cable-news-cycle-pandemic that’s currently infecting anyone with the remotest interest in current events. It’s…

Muse-ums
2019-09-17 03:49:09 UTC
Muse-ums, LA 2018 There’s a quick simple story behind this image that I rather like. I made this image during a trip to the Marciano to see Yayoi Kusama’s ”with all my love for the tulips, I pray forever.” We were just about to leave the exhibit after having shot…

Black+White
2019-09-10 00:28:45 UTC
Black+White, Los Angeles 2019 I read an interesting article about the Society of Political Psychologists’ annual meeting where one presenter delivered a paper predicting that over the course of the next few decades that the number of real, western-style democracies will shrink until only a few small hold-outs remain, but…

Mardi Gras 2018
2018-09-10 18:32:45 UTC
I spoke to Bruce Guilden at the opening night of his “GO” show opening a couple years back. While talking, I mentioned that my favorite book of his was his monograph on Mardi Gras, “Hey Mister, throw me some beads.” In what was quickly becoming a trend of that conversation,…

Gentle monster
2018-07-31 05:19:58 UTC
Gentle Monster close, Los Angeles 2017 Gentle Monster far, Los Angeles 2017 On the day that I made these images, I remember thinking that I had never experienced a sun shining so bright–nor, for that matter, had I ever seen concrete reflect as much lights as Broadway was currently endeavoring…

Size matters
2018-07-16 04:20:46 UTC
“Size Matters” Los Angeles 2018 This will be a simple, cheery post for a weekend that has over-flowed with a wide-variety of naps. I’ve taken quick naps, long naps and medium-length naps. I’ve had naps on the couch, naps on my bed and even a nap on the floor. I…

Not like the others
2018-07-03 04:08:03 UTC
“Not like the others” New Orleans, 2018 I was walking through the sculpture garden right outside NOMA when I turned a corner and came across this installation. At first it didn’t dawn on me that the life-like statue in-living-color was actually a real human being. He was being so still…

When I was young
2018-06-30 07:30:31 UTC
“When I was young” New Orleans 2018 When I back in New Orleans for Mardi Gras–my first in twenty years and the kids first ever–my mother insisted that we go to the Lakefront airport. When I was a kid, I was fascinated with planes trains and automobiles just like every…

Deafening silence
2018-06-27 06:09:00 UTC
“Deafening Silence” Malibu 2018 It’s quiet where I am. It’s so quiet that the noises outside are monstrously loud even though there’s nothing new or unexpected about them. It’s the same motorbikes and traffic and barking dogs and car alarms I hear every day, but the house is oh so…

Worthy
2018-01-21 01:10:35 UTC
“Film Worthy” Hollywood 2017 I’ve had to make a few changes in my life for 2018. We’ve always had a comfortable lifestyle, the Noellert family. We’re not wealthy or even rich or affluent, but we’re not middle class. Ester says were “bougie” from time to time which makes my face…

Hairy Scary
2018-01-12 05:19:44 UTC
“Hairy Scary” Santa Monica 2017 The idea for this image came in a flash. Ella and I were sitting in the living room. I was reading the Sunday New York Times and Ella was behind me, on the other side of the room brushing her hair with what could only…

Low
2018-01-09 06:56:26 UTC
“Low” Venice Beach 2017 One of the best parts about living where I live is that I’m only a stones throw from the Venice Beach boardwalk. Venice is seething with images just begging to be made and time after time when I head down there, close to sunset with a…

Behind
2018-01-04 06:10:24 UTC
“Behind” Carson, 2017 Over the break I’ve taken some time to edit. I’ve tried to be brutally honest with myself and the result has left me feeling a little conflicted. Of my last 250-300 or so pictures I had pulled perhaps 20-30 selects. That puts my hit rate in the…

The Reader
2017-12-29 06:26:16 UTC
“The Reader” Manhattan Beach 2017 The facet of film photography that hooked me was the aspect of full commitment. By full commitment I’m referring to all aspects of photography that a digital shooter will waste time checking or changing or adjusting rather than shooting and trusting their instincts. When I…

Hail to the Chief
2017-12-22 05:48:08 UTC
“Hail to the Chief” Venice 2017 I’ve been sick and upset and not in the mood to post here or on Insta. I haven’t even really been in the mood to be a citizen of the United States or even a human of earth lately. I have a sinus infection…

A is for accident
2017-12-07 04:51:28 UTC
“A is for accident” On the days leading up to that trip to Ikea a couple weeks back, I had an aching feeling. Anyone who has shot long enough with the same camera–especially film cameras with a bevy of mechanical bits–can tell you with some degree of accuracy when something…

There
2017-11-28 05:41:10 UTC
“There” Time for something different. I need to stop raging about the world for a few minutes and have a little bit of light-hearted, old fashioned enjoyment, if even only for a minute or two. I may or may not have mentioned that I’m trying to shoot a little more…

10 minutes
2017-11-25 06:18:00 UTC
“10 minutes 1” “10 minutes 2” “10 minutes 3” “10 minutes 4” I rarely shoot just architecture anymore. Somewhere along my photographic journey I was pulled towards images narrating a human experience to art or architecture or the surrounding environment. Architecture began serving a compositional role that is one component…

Fuck you man
2017-11-23 06:09:27 UTC
“Fuck you man” The story behind this image starts as a familiar one. I’m out shooting downtown and something catches my eye. I quickly frame up and hit the shutter. A few weeks later I look at the negatives and it either worked out or it didn’t. Sometimes when I…

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