Welcome to a selection of Wall
Photographs from around the World
I have been taking photographs in urban settings since 1995, when I was staying with friends at 101 East 16th Street in New York City, close to Union Square. The view out the back window of their apartment looked out on a most wondrous assortment of brick facades, an underbelly of an urban block hidden from most of the world. This is an image from that first encounter.
Herein you will find a selection of wall images. From the menu item above (CITIES) choose a city from the list to see the related images.
The images from New York were taken over many years, starting in 2005 up through 2016; those from southern Spain were taken in the fall of 2010; from Havana in the spring of 2015; from Hoi An, VietNam, in the spring of 2014; the Santa Barbara Granada building photographs date from the early aughts before the renovations began. They were taken from the vantage point of the former Arts and Letters Cafe. The found collage on the wall on Yanonali Street in Santa Barbara's Funk Zone dates from 2017. Finally, the hastily-iPhone-snapped pictures of the bizarre-appearing wall (even by my standards) outside of my hotel room in Taiwan dates from May of 2016. Nearly all of the currently displayed work in this section were taken on a digital SLR, a Canon EOS 30D. The exceptions to this are the images taken right after dawn from my hotel window in a suburb of Taipei, when all of my photographic equipment had already been packed. These were taken with an iPhone 6.
All images were minimally processed within Adobe Photoshop, chiefly using the levels tool to set white and black points, and thus increasing contrast and saturation.
Walls are deeply embedded in our psyche (and soma). Architecturally, they have their own life and aging cycles, showing in their faces outlines of their history, and ghostly traces of long-departed generations.