BIZARRE BRANCH OF THE FREEDOM TUNNEL.

AS HIGH AS WE COULD GET.

This is an old photograph, it's got that I just started trying out photo-tricks thing going on, which photographers get over soon enough. I think it works for this photo though, it was the only way to capture the fact that we were looking down on the entire city in the middle of the night. Try to find a high scaffolding and climb it. With the wind howling like hell I was a bit scared, thinking eventually the whole scaffolding was going to sway over and into the Chicago river.

WANDERING EYES.

I really like that song by Gil Scott Heron, where he sings, "We've got to do something, to save the children."

SEPTEMBER 11TH.

I took these photo's on 9-11 and 9-12. It's bizarre, that whole day. I saw the first one billowing from the train and then by the time I was in the tunnel the second one was about to get hit. Too much to talk about, it could fill a book. But here are a couple photographs from that period.
Unfortunately, I had a throw-away camera that I picked up that morning and had some seriously insane shots, probably crazier than anything I could have ever shot. Junky camera or not it's whats happening that makes the shot. And everything about that day was nuts. It's really too bad that two days later, for reasons I cannot explain, a police officer who was probably having a pretty rough week took my head, slammed it into a tile wall, and then smashed my throw away camera into a number of pieces. A little voice in my head screamed out "Nooooooooooooooooo."
Damn, I think about that camera all the time. All the time.

INTOXICATED ON MILWAUKEE AVENUE.

RAINY NIGHT.

RAINY DAY.