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1/2 a Life: 30 Years of Camera Work

...actually, more than forty. However, from 1988 I took a photography courses at ICP in New York, and so leveled up a notch or two. Also, later that year I moved to south Korea, thus beginning a life outside of New York City, and the USA entirely. With the exception of a couple of one year stints back in Manhattan in the late '90's (I rarely picked up a camera during the second stint), this has remained the lifestyle of choice. Nothing stays the same, neither places or people, or me for that matter, so I'm going to try and select images that best encapsulate my memories of those times, and that I feel represent change over this period. The images here are all taken in places that we had been living in, as those circumstances lend a different perspective than those of a traveler. I'll also include some pre-1988 images, but if they are decent at all, the result was only by chance, as I had no idea at all what I was doing. Having turned 60, this seems like the appropriate time to compile images for this gallery.
tracks.jpg dragon entry.jpg taking flight.jpg
survivor.jpg truck driver.jpg silent solicitation.jpg
gang of four.jpg sandstorm.jpg a moment.jpg
upwards.jpg winter reflection.jpg yesterdays news.jpg
a float in the field.jpg street sign.jpg worker.jpg
reigning over midtown.jpg abu dhabi blues.jpg now open.jpg
ny yankees world series victory parade.jpg life passes by.jpg arabic food.jpg
smile.jpg sakura season.jpg his_space.jpg
etisalat.jpg the heat of night.jpg sunrise.jpg
improvised fun.jpg a fishing tale.jpg reggae groove.jpg
setting out.jpg camel train.jpg camel remains.jpg
kiso fukushima.jpg students and salary men.jpg traditional cooling towers.jpg
look around.jpg snowy.jpg prepared.jpg
transformation in progress.jpg crossing hamdan street.jpg clap.jpg
stop in shinjuku.jpg stop and breath.jpg hanil market.jpg
yoghurt.jpg taxi glut.jpg volcano.JPG
harvest fields.jpg snow crossing.jpg a chinese pipa player.JPG
a portrait in parts.jpg the outlook.jpg sandlands.jpg
on the ridge.jpg escort.jpg a most scary scarecrow.jpg
behind the wheel.jpg terms of the deal.jpg center of attention.jpg
dizzying entertainment options.jpg Yongsan Station.jpg verticals.jpg
police supply shop.jpg cast.jpg gents.JPG
abandon_car.jpg ostrich stepping.jpg hijab fashion.jpg
pachinko promotion.jpg paint job.jpg put out to pasture.jpg
the papers.jpg ponder.jpg disembark.jpg
firing one up.jpg beat of a city.jpg fountain.JPG
wonderful days of summer.jpg watch and learn.jpg resistant sandstone outcroppings.jpg
murabba fort.jpg girls day out.jpg tracks.jpg
the freshest.jpg the gauntlet.jpg who me.jpg
in the mangrove.jpg commerce.jpg let me in.jpg
head_start.jpg remove your shoes.jpg farmhouse harvest day.jpg
spreading the word.jpg wanderers.jpg for your ears only.jpg
cultural foundation.jpg visions.jpg morning fog.jpg
mount saint helens.jpg perimeter.jpg thai script.jpg
divers.jpg cruising_the_market.jpg the twins.jpg
hoops.jpg desert flower.jpg the mighty fall.jpg
ontake man.jpg who am i.jpg what was once avenue a.jpg
key hole entry.jpg airing out.jpg alley way.jpg
sheikh on a white horse.jpg sleeping child.jpg learn to drive.jpg
early winter fields.jpg afternoon in the sooq.jpg the shoot.jpg
postcard from a far away place.jpg hamlet.jpg in the market.jpg
break in the square.jpg construction deconstruction.jpg