I am many things.
If you found this from my artsier Instagram page, you’ll already know that I often prefer to have words to go along with my images.
Call it vanity, call it ADHD, I just sometimes need people to know what I think. This is the space for me to discuss that.
This is also the space for me to write voluminously at/about/around pictures I take. It’s a safe bet, at this point, that I “yearn to be a street photographer”.
(Hence the title.)
As such, this blog will be random writings couched in the language of “here’s words needed to make more sense of the world around me”.
This intro, like me (and us all), is a work in progress.
Ektar, April, and me
So when I knew I was going to return home a year sooner than expected, it somewhat changed how I perceived my final two months in Korea. It changed from ‘get a good start’ to ‘leave a good impression’, and still making sure to find time for the soul-nourishing activities that I needed the most. But I also needed to work hard on the yearbook I was in charge of for the school year- I was, after all, the yearbook class teacher.
This is how we win
Porchfest is exactly as you’re imagining. A bunch of houses in a neighborhood block in Tacoma hosting outdoor music shows. People bringing their families and kids to listen to music, engage in community, to be around each other. And beyond that, it provided an opportunity and a space for everyone in the area to remember that this is how we win.
Busan
The first part of the trip went ‘normally’, insofar as such things are possible for two men who have known each other for almost 30 years to go normally in another country. Picking him up from the train station was complicated, if only because cell service is hard to come by for international travelers.
A day-ish I’ll (hopefully) never re-live
“Practically unlimited magnification capability” is what my soul and my psyche desperately needed at this time in my life- but I had to settle for it as a film stock.