shooting from the hip

I didn’t start work until 6pm on Thanksgiving so I decided to spend a good chunk of the afternoon visiting my recent photo subject Patricia Jefferson.

When the Grabenhofers have night time Bears’ parties in their garage, it is kinda hard to find a match to the Cagwin farm.

Ed and Amanda hosted a party the other night and it resulted in several new diptychs. My new ones are a little more non-traditional so let me know if you think they work as I post them over the next several days.

The one challenge is the lack of people. Out in the land of the parking lot, the only place to see humans is on their walk from a store to their car.

Last week, I was sent over to the Chicago Theatre to photograph a dress rehearsal for Cirque du Soleil’s new vaudeville show “Banana Shpeel”.

On Sundays, Patricia Jefferson serves as associate minister at Reverend Floyd B. Smiley’s Direct Thy Path M.B. Church on South Lawndale Avenue on Chicago’s West side.

One recent evening, Aryana wanted Patricia to bake a cake. Patricia was feeling tired but Aryana kept pestering her so Patricia finally relented and the pair headed into the kitchen.

Patricia is a 58-year-old woman who lives in a 2nd floor apartment on Chicago’s far west side. She is married to William and lives with their autistic adopted daughter Sherice, who turned 14 on my third visit.

Shot from street level, Phil captured ballet dancers practicing on the 3rd floor of the new Joffrey Ballet studio on State Street in Chicago’s Loop.

As the Grabenhofer family sat down to dinner, I decided to shoot from the backyard to make a pair to one of the many outside looking in shots from the Cagwin farm.