When I started taking pictures with a crappy digital camera - it's only been about eight years - I really just wanted to capture things that engaged me in some way. What has happened is that they're serving as a kind of memory aid - I will remember where I was when I took the picture sometimes, & the circumstances surrounding the event will come rushing back to me.
This is a picture I took in Dallas on this day in 2017. The houseless problem there wasn't as bad then as it probably is now, but what the hell do I know. I saw this fellow - & if his face had been visible, I wouldn't have taken the picture - as I was trying to find my way to a venue where there was a KNON benefit planned. It was the first benefit I think I volunteered at - & I was tasked with putting food on the plates of the people who came to the benefit, one of the benefits of which was free food. I actually have never worked in the food industry in my life, & I was terrible at it. But I wanted to help the station & most of all I wanted a show. I might get one in a year? I forget when I got the show there. Of course I didn't stay in Dallas long.
My wife hates when I take pictures like this. Perhaps I shouldn't share it. There is I hope a great deal of empathy in this picture. There but for fortune go you & I.
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