Uptown

Update

Six months have come and gone and I thought it might be time to add/subtract material (and reinvigorate) my website. In case you haven't been up-to-date with my blog in the past few months, I added a small edit of photographs taken during my five-week stint as a night-life photographer at Studio Paris in Chicago. Opportunity come and opportunity go. I'm not really sure I've gotten my footing here in the city... and my photography feels a little aimless. Or maybe sparse is a better word. In any case, I will celebrate what I have to show. In the scheme of it, maybe it's more than I think.

Studio Paris, Cinq

Studio Paris, Quatre

Studio Paris, Trois

Studio Paris, Deux

From now on, my Friday nights are spent here... documenting a city night life I could never see otherwise.

Studio Paris, Un

We All Feel Better in the Dark

Let's Have a Black Celebration

I listened to too much Depeche Mode while editing these photos from Sunday's Northalsted Halloween parade. Also, The Cure. And just in case this blog isn't massive enough for you, a more abundant lot of photos can be viewed here. Thanks to Time Out for assigning me yet another over-the-top Boystown parade to shoot.

You and Whose Army?

Selling the Drama

You Looked So Beautiful in the Rising Heat

Sour Cherry

I Was a Superman, But Looks Are Deceiving

But the Stillness Is a Burn

I was dripping with sweat on the dance floor Saturday, two in the morning, packed like a sardine (you can finish the rest of the Radiohead reference), searching for pools of light, straining my eyes to focus my lens, averting my gaze from the fucked up and and lustful... but, you know, despite the awkwardness and difficulty of it all, there isn't much to complain about when you get free access to a Lollapalooza after party, DJed by Jamie from the xx.