I had forgotten I shot this (in March), but the issue it was in only recently came out. Matt Browne of Winona, MN is featured in “Men’s Fitness” as a Success Story. He fought cancer and weight issues as a child and look at him now. Frankly, it was like looking in the mirror.
Big ups to Alex Roberts of Restaurant Alma & Brasa fame for his nomination as a James Beard finalist in the “Best Chef: Midwest” category. If you haven’t tried Brasa’s chicken sandwich yet, you are missing out (better yet, get it with a side of the creamed spinach).
Evidently, this guy really throws a fit when he doesn’t get his way.
An old image of mine has been used as the cover of DoubleCross Press’s book of Matthew Henrikson’s poem “Another Word.” I really love this image, I guess it’s my homage to Edward Weston with a bit of Zone System up in that mother.
I’m set to begin some new work on my North Minneapolis project (the first phase - the Polaroid work - will be appearing on my website soon). The new work is more portraiture then landscape, but my interest in pushing on with a new stage of this work started with this shot. It might be fairly prosaic (in fact I’ve thought that would be a great curated group show: “Prosaic, MN” - but how many pictures of Mini-Donuts stands, VFW’s & farm-town parades can you stomach?), but there is something in this I like and that interests me. It’s a block from my studio in the industrial part of North Minneapolis, right by the Mississippi River. There is a fairly new, for lack of a better term, metal crunching machine that was built and now there is an ever evolving mountain of scrap. I’m curious to see what it will look like after our first good snowstorm!