Main Street Worcester

This collection of images reflects a mood exhibited by certain people on Main Street, Worcester. Though I feel the notion to to call them a depressed people, they most certainly are full of life and energy, only living in a different social sphere. My main subject of this genre is James Diggs, but I have decided to produce a small set of images beyond him. I aim to show the harsh mental state that existing primarily in the streets can manifest. It is a different world, with a different economy and complex social structure. Though not everyone in this collection may fit into the stereotypical street figure, in this context, they seem to take on this harshened atmosphere.

The Great Fanzini Jams On Guitar

James Diggs 2

These images are from my continued James Diggs series, and relate to the origin of my interest of decay in the city of Worcester. Though much of my recent work has focused on material objects, I am also very interested in the process of human decay, its causes, and the environment it occurs in. Decay is far more complex than just a downward slope. There are hills and valleys in this process, and especially in the human case, there is a chance to directly hear the stories of people and chaos, and see their ups and downs. My relationship with James, has allowed me an opportunity to see this spectrum, and helped me see the ups and downs of people in a broader context, beyond what might be considered the decayed people of society. Decay exists in everyone's lives whether we admit it or not. 

Invisible Pants

Bacon Hat

Sexuality and Human Rights

Dirty Meat

The Awkward One

Sketches of The Post Industrial Shaman

I have been exploring trash and its' spaces of decay lately. The images in this collection are not focused on the objects of decay, so much as pulling away and taking a broader view of my work and its' relationship to the spaces I experience in Worcester. This work could be perceived as process oriented, or site specific, but  it feels more and more like documentary, a harvest of emotions evoked. The process of walking to the site's end, that of isolation, feels like a documentary of this ambience ubiquitous to the city. In my work of other media, I easily agree to process and site specificity as central, but there is some undeniable sense of document inherent to that of the photographs I have been making over the past year.

This collection takes the broader motive of my body of work, and applies it to the photographic documents that I feel have "less of me," and "more of the space" in them.

The title "Sketches of The Post Industrial Shaman," refers to a film I am in the process of creating, and the importance of this photography to the video aspects of my work.

Sausage GPS

Jaime y Nada'

El Espacio de Decadencia