Documentary Photography

A tagged rooftop seen on Fairfax in Los Angeles on Saturday, April 14, 2012.

Chalk text seen on the USC campus in Los Angeles on Saturday, February 11, 2012.

A child's chalk drawing. Or, maybe I'm assuming too much ... maybe it's made by an adult. I don't really know. Only "Ad...

We've moved to a city with fewer hills. More soon.

Like Michelangelo, but not upside down.

This was in Pacific Heights.

This was, of course, in front of The Fillmore.

This is near the Boom Boom Room.

Despite its eventual fate , the ongoing Word on the Street project soldiers on.

On my other blog, I've been shooting a series of Word on the Street photos. So, above, a glimpse at their eventual end: not with a ba...

I don't know if the "OMG" is on purpose or an accident.

Since moving to San Francisco, I've been photographing any etched messages I find on the sidewalk. I've called the series Word on th...

Found on Fillmore, Thursday evening.

I assume someone took the time to stuff the bits of plant into the letters, but maybe instead someone tried to sweep the street and left thi...

One of the things I'm not sure photographers fully appreciate yet about micro four thirds format cameras like the Panasonic GH1 and Pana...

Technically, not a word, but still... it counts.

I don't actually know what this means. Was there a place called "Randy's Tooth"? Or ... was there a tooth?

This was near Masonic and Geary. When future archeologists unearth this pictograph, they'll puzzle over its possible meanings, and they...

I assume this was scratched into the concrete before there was a television show with this title. Then, it's cool. If not, then it's...

I think this was on Fulton.