Chasing LightWelcome. This is where I share my work and also the work of others, those that inspire me, the weird, the great, the unusual.
It is a goddamn marvel this life. Take a look.
Bob Dylan | Weird Guitar Guy
Kindergarten kids in ritzy L.A. suburb Calabasas have been coming home to their parents and talking about the “weird man” who keeps coming to their class to sing “scary” songs on his guitar.
Leonard Cohen | On Conde Guitars
I was compelled in the midst of that ordeal of packing to go and open my guitar. I have a Conde guitar, which was made in Spain in the great workshop at No. 7 Gravina Street. A beautiful instrument that I acquired over 40 years ago.
Tom Waits | On The Pogues’ Rum, Sodomy & the Lash
They are a roaring, stumbling band. These are the dead end kids for real. Shane’s voice conveys so much. They play like soldiers on leave. The songs are epic. It’s whimsical and blasphemous, seasick and sacrilegious, wear it out and then get another one.
– Tom Waits
Neil Libbert | Wall Street
What I do is often on the border between being an intruder and an observer – it’s called clandestine photography. I’m not always proud of how I behave but sometimes it’s the only way.
Weegee | Murder Is My Business
So, keep your eyes open. If you see anything, take it. Remember – you’re as good as your last picture. One day you’re hero, the next day you’re a bum…
Richard Dumas | Portraits
[I am a] photographer rather than portraitist. To be able to be a portraitist one must be a photographer and I do not just take portraits, I also do other forms of photography as well.
Tokyo | Harajuku, Alice on Wednesday
Tokyo is a city that richly rewards those who wander.
Stanley Kubrick | Polishing A Turd
I was in my cutting room around 1 in the morning, and he strolls in smoking a cigarette and says, “Can I watch?”
Tokyo | Kanda Yabu Soba
I have a simple rule when I am traveling or doing my wandering thing: when I see a line of locals waiting for a restaurant, I must abandon my plans and also get in line. Even if I have just eaten, it does not matter, because this has nothing to do with hunger.
Watabe Yukichi | A Criminal Investigation
The cinematic quality, the heavy noir tone, the procedural elements of the investigation harken to the great Hollywood noir classics but especially to the Kurosawa police procedurals, High and Low and Stray Dog.
Hiroshi Watanabe | Rikishi (2005)
I am not sure if I am successful professional photographer. If “successful professional” means I can live a good, somewhat luxurious, life by the profession, then I am certainly not.
– Hiroshi Watanabe
Joel Meyerowitz | Taking My Time
He shoots with both a 35 mm camera and a large format Deardorff 20×25. Few photographers are capable of working in these formats, the two being quite different languages.
Saint Petersburg | Vi, Chaise XIV
Jaime Permuth | Yonkeros
This book is entitled “Yonkeros” after the vernacular term that describes businesses that specialize in junk and scrap metal.
Saint Petersburg | Vi, Standing XVI
Some Well-worn Leicas
This M3 was used by Henri Cartier-Bresson from end of 1960 until about 1968 when he gave it to Inge Morath.
Saint Petersburg | Vi, Standing XV
André Kertész | The Fork
I am an amateur and intend to remain one my whole life long. I attribute to photography the task of recording the real nature of things, their interior, their life.
Saint Petersburg | Vi, Lying Chaise XIV
Robert Frank | Paris New Year, 1949
…if one is sensitive, it has an effect on you. So maybe it’s better not to be sensitive as a photographer and just go on. Many photographers today have that but I never had that. I think it’s nice to be sensitive as a photographer and maybe it’s harder.