America Today

 

Every photo walk, I meet suffering people who are just trying to get by. Meanwhile, on social media, the hand-waving cry of the day is "nobody wants to work!" It's hard to understand why our keyboard warriors are so angry. I've always heard that ignorance is bliss, so it seems like they should be deliriously happy. But they are not: they are addicted to rage.

 

Those confidently ignorant rageaholics in my comments and DMa don't know jack shit about wht others are going through. And as I've learned over h

 

Night Shift

 

A beach town in November, when most of the tourists have gone home and darkness is the order of business. Still, a few die hard souls hold forth, taking shelter in the lights of the Pelican Pub against the darkness.

Digital photography-based art preserves a real moment in time, even with its surreal elements. In the dark, our world gets smaller, as close as a breath. The light expands our world a little, and makes us feel like everything will be okay. I'm sure these people were happy in the moment, and that's all we really can expect.

Signed prints available.

The Way Things really Are

How it started: You thought you got an app to summon food to your car. Just put yourself into your numbered slot and wait.

How it's going: Actually, an app got you, to help its owners get rid of employees. You're really just a robot that transfers money to owners' bank accounts. And you work for food. 

Congratulations. 

#dystopia

This Used to be a Farm

    The centralization of profit is always the highest priority in the USA now, so small family farms are considered obsolete. The real money is in corporate farming: giant, industrialized operations, automation, low-paid workers, and much profit flowing to the top.

    That is how things are, now. One way or another, Americans wanted this for themselves. As the saying goes, you break it, you bought it.