When I was little I would sit on the toilet and wonder if ghosts were watching me. Hovering near the mirror, standing in the tub, poking their heads out of the closets — my eyes would scan our black and white tiled bathroom, convinced I was not alone. This isn’t to say I was terrified [...]
“I bet I’m totally sketching this entire neighborhood out,” I said, as I clambered from the corpse pose I’d been awkwardly attempting on the sidewalk. I like to think that my photographing self-consciousness is mostly unwarranted. Nobody actually cares if you’re taking pictures of things. Cameras give you license to look as awkward as possible [...]
Here’s a fun way to find out that your high school sweetheart got married last weekend: through the Facebook status update of his little sister. “Hey, she’s a sister-in-law now, eh? Well that’s exciting for her. Oh, wait a minute . . .”
I found myself one evening in Chicago, on a former mayor’s 40th floor personal library which had since been transformed into a private bar for rich tenants. It was dripping with modern chandeliers and heavy couches, layers of leather-bound law books. The ceiling-high arched windows made you feel as if you were floating in metropolis, [...]