Category: Urban
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Yellow Wall
I resemble this man and many of the other black men, standing outside of restaurants and stores in the Bay Area, who rely on acts of kindness from strangers to eat. He, and the other man on the other side of the drive-through, are silently hoping for Generosity to motivate someone to share. A man…
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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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Street Light
As a child growing up in Guyana, I spent a lot of time watching insects buzz around beneath streets at night. On a wet winter night in Oakland, when I stare up at the street lights, there are no insects only, other lights and cameras staring back at me as if I were the insect.
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Raindrops
I love rain at night because it always seems to slow down the passage of time as I sit and wait for it to stop while simultaneously not wanting cessation.
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BART Lights
This image reminds me of the idyllic images of lights reflected on the surface of water at night. Instead, these lights, mounted to the walls of the BART track in West Oakland, are reflecting on the roof of my car.
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Right Turn Only
Sadly, the very cool, Hoza Pizza, once located next to this sign and behind the green dumpster, is now gone. I ate one of the best slices of pizza ever, here. The graffiti covered surfaces make for a very deliberate pile of chaos that I really like.
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Pretty Dumpster
I like the density of objects in this photograph. My eyes walk backward from the yellow lettering on the dumpster in the foreground to the orange barriers, to the second dumpster, to the tagged sign, the cars, the third dumpster and finally the distant street and building lights.
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Six Drops
As peaceful and settled, as these six water drops appear to be, I can’t help imagining tension when I look at this image. My mind keeps asking when will they drop.
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