About getting in close: I wanted to talk a little about defusing a situation when someone gets all nasty when you take a close portrait. I was shooting with my buddy Chicago Joe yesterday, and he was getting quite frustrated.…
Alley Boys #Chicago, 2013
It’s so cold here in Chicago that the concrete has turned to steel. “And there is another feeling that is a great consolation in poverty. I believe everyone who has been hard up has experienced it. It is a feeling…
Word From The Street: RIP “T” – Cold Streets Take Another Life
She opened her wallet and pulled out a small tattered photo of a young child. “This is my little girl,” she said. “Do you think you could take a photo of this photo, and then have it enlarged? It’s her…
Word From The Street: Phil’s Fund
Street Photography is far more than just taking pictures… – Okay, as many people know, I’m trying to ease the suffering of several mentally disabled homeless men through the winter by providing food and warm clothes (part of my “Under…
Idle No More, Chicago
Idle No More The Idle No More protest movement continues to gain steam here in Chicago.
Tattooed Teardrops
Tattooed teardrops line the sterilized institutional halls for the morning call – hot flesh delivered live from the cold hard streets of steel keeps the iron ball rolling, the silver bell tolling, and the lead still flowing. There is no…
Kaliq Woods, Hottest Jazz Clarinet Player in Chicago
In my opinion, Kaliq Woods is by far the hottest clarinet player in Chicago. I first met Kaliq back in 2009 playing some sick Jazz over by the Wrigley Building. Toady I ran into him on the corner of Adams…
The End of Little Cheyenne? Aldermen Push to Close Down Ewing Annex Hotel
Tucked away in a dreary little corner of Chicago’s financial district, directly in the shadow of the tallest building in the Western hemisphere, sits a tiny row of buildings on the 400 block of South Clark Street, that makeup all…