Category: Night Photography
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Corrugated Pizza
Corrugated steel will always represent affordable shelter to me. It’s a material that I saw frequently used for the roofs and walls of modest rural homes of in Guyana. My mind traveled back in time, and thousands of miles away when I saw this piece of metal in downtown Oakland. Instead of a roof and…
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Wheelchair & Red Car
With is each revolution of the Earth, I lose a a tiny bit of life. From birth, I was told to believe that morality, and merit would protect me from sickness, exploitation, loneliness, and even death. My mother also told me I had “hard ears”. Sometimes the lack of compliance is a signal of healthy…
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Man with Red Bike
I see a lot of men standing outside of convenience, stores at night as I work. Sometimes they ask for money, other times they ask for food, and sometimes they just seem to be standing there because there’s a light on other people around.
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Freeway Lights
I’m going to miss the rain when summer arrives in the East Bay. How light interacts, refracts and reflects off of mist, is always a wonder to observe. Mist is like sugar in the air; it reduces details but adds sweetness to whatever passes through it.
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Rain In Richmond
As a photographer in training, I was cautioned to never to take photographs through a window. For me, being told to never do something always inspires me to ask why. I’ve learned to ignore the word never as much as possible. Since I spend a large part of each day, looking at the world through…
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Used Car Lot
Shiny things that move get my attention. These rainbow colored tassels over a used car lot in Richmond, catch my eye every time I drive by. They won’t make me buy the car but they do signal the idea that this is a fun place to spend my money if I were to buy a…
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Cross Walk
I’ve driven rapidly over this underpass hundreds of times. It never crosses my mind that I’m driving over the heads of others. The juxtaposition of the black and white crosswalk, the gold, glowing murals and the dark box shaped shelters of the unhoused is halting every time I drive through this underpass at night.
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Grand Green Lights
This image was taken seconds after “Red Grand Lights,” but because of the color change from red to green, it feels quieter. Green always signifies quiet for me most likely because I associate it with walking through places with dense vegetation. I also find it to be a soothing color.
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Liquor Store
A lot of alcohol deliveries and consumption happens at night, particularly on Friday and Saturday nights. We also smooth ourselves at the day’s end the day with weed, ice cream, candy, cookies and other sweet treats. I wonder when and where it began and why it continues despite how much damage it causes? We know…
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Underpass
I’ve driven rapidly over this underpass hundreds of times. It never crosses my mind that I’m driving over the heads of others. The juxtaposition of the black and white crosswalk, the gold, glowing murals and the dark box shaped shelters of the unhoused is halting every time I drive through this underpass at night.
