One City Block Of Cigarette Butts
I was challenged this week to create a typology. "Typology is the study of types, and a photographic typology is a suite of images or related forms, shot in a consistent, repetitive manner; to be fully understood, the images must be viewed as a complete series." I've done this in the past, not really knowing what it was called or really... why I was doing it. A few years ago, I documented all of the textures I encountered on the ground during my travels with "What lies beneth" and every day for a month in 2009, I visited the same house on the beach at different times of the day with my "Race Point" series of photographs. This time, I took a walk around one city block in Long Beach and photographed cigarette butts laying on the ground. At first, I just shot each one as I saw them on the street or sidewalk without thinking. After a while, I started to notice them taking on unique personalities. It was as if each one had a history and character by the...