Rostock

In the spring of 2010 a friend and I biked from Lisbon Portugal all the way to Copenhagen Denmark to exhibit in a gallery …we made all the work for the show along the way….this night was extremely long we had biked for 17 hours  and were exhausted…a soggy fog hid us from the city …courteous rostockers gave us fish sandwiches and beer and offered us showers ….we had a run in with a baby boar and ended up sleeping at an abandoned s-bahn station in the port ….woke up soaking from condensation… to me this photo looks like it has been taken underwater and I imagine a submarine train line …this fog is true to color as the lighting was off of a giant  aqua logo for some German boat company

Amsterdam

A precarious stiletto teeters on the brink of post-Queensday urine scented Dutch canal unable to be reached

Barcelona

I love the life around the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Barcelona …it is a clash of worlds … I worked inside painting a mural for a month and took many photos on the sunny lunches outside..the skateboarders and bikers and drunks and shoppers all mingling in what makes up the character of a city…. this man took out his dentures before his siesta on the sidewalk

Western Sahara

Every 2 years or so I go on a grand adventure with my friend, Mike…we’ve hopped trains from Vancouver to Kamloops …we’ve snuck into the catacombs underneath Paris for a night…we’ve hitch-hiked across Spain

Last year we tried to go to Mauritania to ride the longest freight train across the Sahara desert…but there had been a coup and you needed a military convoy to get into the country…it was such a big mess we ended up in Western Sahara…where I pushed Mike in his wheelchair miles into the desert…made tea on a bonfire and watched the falling stars in the Sahara sky

Berlin

A nice fall day sneaking around the abandoned amusement park along the river Spree in Treptow Park

Costa Rica

Two giant toads making love in a pond

Gun

Living in Buenos Aires…you see random violence…robberies…fights…even a friend of mine who came to visit was shot…the bullet passed through both of his thighs and out the other side, luckily hitting no bones…at first glance, I thought the gun was real

Haida Gwaii

Haida gwaii means “the peoples island”

The most north-western tip of Canada with a view of Alaska in the morning …the moss is like a mattress over a foot thick … supposedly when you take one step in the rain forest in Haida Gwaii underneath your feet is the densest population of micro-organisms in the world …

Buenos Aires

I have spent a good 20 years of my life photographing life next to and in train yards…the transients, the graffiti artists, the workers and the trains themselves

I was excited to find this rare yard in downtown Buenos Aires…the workers were just changing shifts… I love how this photo came out split in half with the grass and the nature being so warm colored and the cement and factories so cold and shadowy….

best of friends

 

they were walking by and i was just going to take a photo of the landscape when the dog went up for a look and she put her arm over his shoulder … a second later it was over