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.

As my daily work continues to be for stories that won’t be published for awhile, I will once again dip into the past.

Earlier that year, I was sent to Hoopeston to photograph a corn farmer. As I chatted him up, he told me about his town. How Hoopeston used to be the Sweet Corn Capital of the World but now it was only known for the Sweetheart Pageant which was part of their Sweet Corn Festival.

As I was searching through my archive looking for my 1999 photo of Brittney Payton, I started feeling nostalgic for some of my older images.