Quiet Places
Black and White Series
Quiet Places was photographed using a malfunctioning Leica M9 with a deteriorating CCD sensor. The camera’s instability introduced bloom, blur, and tonal drift that could not be corrected in post. Rather than resist the distortion, the series embraces it, allowing mechanical failure to mirror emotional silence. These images explore spaces that feel paused, suspended between memory and disappearance..
Cathedral of Transit
Concrete arches repeat into shadow, turning infrastructure into something devotional. Light cuts across the roadway like a quiet benediction. The bridge becomes less about movement and more about stillness held in tension. The broken sensor softens the distance, as if the structure is dissolving into its own echo.
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After the Echo
A decommissioned tank rests on a fog heavy hill, more monument than machine. Trees stand skeletal behind it, indifferent. The camera’s failing eye flattens the scene into silhouette, removing detail and amplifying weight. Power here feels abandoned, reduced to outline.
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Signal in the Mist
A single utility pole leans into a washed out sky. Lines stretch outward but connect to nothing visible. The blur introduced by the damaged sensor renders the landscape uncertain, as though memory itself has thinned. The image speaks in restraint.
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Freight of Silence
A semi truck passes overhead, severed by the edge of an overpass. The horizon is muted, stripped of depth. Mechanical movement contrasts with the stillness below. The flawed CCD softens the sky into a blank field, emphasizing isolation over motion.
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Vacancy, 2 A.M.
A decommissioned tank rests on a fog heavy hill, more monument than machine. Trees stand skeletal behind it, indifferent. The camera’s failing eye flattens the scene into silhouette, removing detail and amplifying weight. Power here feels abandoned, reduced to outline.
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American Relic
A vintage car turns slowly through an alley framed by brick and shadow. Architecture closes in around it. The distortion from the damaged sensor gives the scene a slightly unsteady perspective, like a memory bending at its edges. Nostalgia here is not sentimental. It is weathered.
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Measured Distance
A speed limit sign interrupts a sky crowded with power lines. The directive feels arbitrary in a place so still. The softness and tonal drift flatten urgency into contemplation. Regulation becomes abstraction.
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Closed Circuit
Historic storefronts line a quiet street, windows reflecting nothing in particular. The perspective feels slightly detached, as though observed from a moving vehicle. The broken sensor mutes clarity, turning commerce into memory. The street holds its breath.
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Awaiting Form
Empty hangers rest on a rack, suspended in quiet anticipation. The shallow focus and subtle distortion render them ghostlike. Without bodies, the forms feel provisional. Presence is implied but absent.
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Ascent
A woman climbs a narrow staircase toward a washed out doorway. Light overtakes detail at the threshold. The camera’s imperfection heightens the tension between shadow and illumination. Movement here feels deliberate, almost ritual.
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Before Memory
A blurred child’s face turns toward something unseen. The image resists sharpness, refusing to settle into clarity. The damaged sensor introduces streaks and softness that echo the instability of early recollection. Memory is not precise. It is atmospheric.
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Unattended Faith
A church façade stands in partial blur, its stonework softened into texture rather than detail. The building appears both solid and dissolving. The camera’s instability removes certainty from the structure. Belief becomes atmosphere.
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