People

Suggestion of
Hidden presence
Behind it

The world is always greater than what we can immediately perceive, there is always more to see, more to know.

“The aesthetic is the experience of the eternal in the moment.” – Karl Jaspers

Olive
Wood
Crafts

Contemporary art is here made possible by over 170 unique artisans, musicians, street performers, food vendors, food & dessert trucks & a beer/beverage garden.

“Many markets work best with little or no outside interference.” – Eric Maskin

Prosaic poetry
Chaotic grace
Fleeting reality

Photographing a street fair is about experiencing the world with a heightened sensitivity, about recognizing the profound in the ordinary. The street fair, with its teeming life, its fleeting moments of joy and sorrow, offers an endless source of such experiences.

“Photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson

Fixed identities
Pre-defined roles
Dissolved

A rupture is found in the smooth, pre-ordained flow of the park’s topography.

“The rhizome… has no beginning or end; it is always in the middle, between things, interbeing, intermezzo.” – Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

Grasping a bundle
Hidden behind
Sheaf of dried plants

It is a familiar predicament, this struggle for visibility within an opaque system.

“You are free, and that is why you are lost.” – Franz Kafka

Skylight window
Event Lighting
Silhouette Shadow

Speckled with the detritus of the city, a translucent awning sits above a soft-focus haze punctuated by the indistinct figure of a solitary individual.

“Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we are shown a photograph of it.” – Susan Sontag

Unspoken rules
Shared understandings
Govern interactions

Shared standards, often rooted in convention, allow us to communicate and share aesthetic experiences.

“The aesthetic object is not a thing given once and for all, but rather an event that unfolds in time and space.” – Mikhail Bakhtin

Ancient ancestry
Lines of transience
Authentic Hawaiian princess

At its core, royalty is a performance, a carefully choreographed spectacle designed to project power, authority, and divine right.

“What is the greatest weight that you can bear? It is your responsibility.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

A young girl
Moves quietly
Through the crowd

A LOMO Belomo 120mm f/1.8 Petzval lens isolates beauty within a swirl of humanity.

“Of thoughts so sudden, that they seem the revelations of a dream.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Embodied existence
Constructed nature
Sense of self

The distorted reflections within the funhouse mirror challenge our ingrained sense of self and our perception of the world around us, forcing us to confront the fluidity and ambiguity of our embodied existence.

“The body is our primary way of being in the world.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty