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i think her head is on backwards
I found a treasure the other day, on the corner of 5th Street and Harrison Avenue, in Lorenzo, Texas. There’d been some sort of retail operation there (A thrift store, maybe? It was already out of business on the 2023 Google Street View.) but the building had been lately torn down. Across the back of the lot were piles of bricks and ceiling tile and boxes and inventory. I spent some good time exploring.
This mannequin seemed creepy enough at the time to warrant a photo, but it got weirder after I got home and edited the picture – that’s when I noticed that her head had spun around until it was completely backwards on her shoulders.
Lorenzo, Texas
photographed 4.18.2025
the strongest remain
You know your guide and driver are reading the room when they make non-routine stops (without even being asked) – for important things like roadside ruins or newly blossoming almond trees or the light hitting a hillside town in just the right way – so the photographers could pile out and do our things.
near Enna, Sicily
photographed 2.3.2025
palatino
Nights in Cuba were a little disconcerting. The blackouts could (and did) happen all over the place, for random amounts of time. And then there’d be the one place (like you can see here) that was literally the only bright spot on the entire block. It’s just the way of things.
Cienfuegos, Cuba
photographed 11.8.2022
baseball/basketball/laundry
This is a typical scene in Cuba – some ad hoc sports going on in a vacant lot, laundry drying on a balcony rail, and a random guy hanging out.
Havana, Cuba
photographed 11.6.2022
do not go gently
I was looking back through the images I made a few years ago on a photo trip to Havana and found some that didn’t catch my attention at the time.
Like this one, which I made on the first night in the country, of a vintage car driving in front of the Hotel Inglaterra. As we explored the neighborhood around the Parque Central, rolling blackouts rolled around. It was a little surreal, the way the buildings would be flooded with light one minute and then gone when the lights went black. It was a regular thing, day and night, and I never got used to it.
Havana, Cuba
photographed 11.5.2022
