Long Forested Street

2015, it was a warm night in August. I had just arrived at the 13th Street dorms in one of those overpriced cabs that wave you down right when you exit JFK. On my way over the Williamsburg Bridge, I saw the city skyline and I felt grown up and excited. The air was sticky when I pulled my duffel out of the trunk and lugged it up the stoop. A student at the entrance invited me upstairs. My room was a double at the end of the hall, about a hundred fifty square feet, with grey laminate floor, a bunk bed, fluorescent lights, and thick pipes sprawled across the ceiling. From outside the window I hea

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Photographing Strangers

A couple of years ago, while still at photo school, I wrote an essay about ethics in photography. It was largely based on interviews with Graham MacIndoe, a documentary photographer and professor of mine, and Joey Lawrence, a commercial photographer with a knack for documentary projects with a sheen. The original article reads like the work of a fledgling journalist, desperately clinging to his interviews to avoid drowning in a sea of assumptions. So over the course of the last too many weeks (I didn't write much in the past few years) I updated it. While writing, my mother told me about a Bru