2025 “List”
In 2024, I started a new photo series. Dubbed “the list,” it consisted of images I’d purposefully sought to make based on a long running tab I had going. Essentially a docket of scribbles, screenshots, map coordinates, and reference images all detailing things I wanted to eventually get around to documenting.
By the end of 2024, I was really happy with the photographs I made, but the file in my phone called “potential things to shoot” seemingly never stops growing. So, in an effort to keep with it, here’s the 2025 edition—a post that I plan to regularly come back to and update throughout the year.
Last Updated: March 31, 2025
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Last Updated: March 31, 2025 —
March 31, 2025 Entries:
Cappel’s party supply store in Cincinnati during Winter Storm Blair.
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Shepard Fairey wheatpaste in the Over-The-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati.
In the fall of 2024, renowned artist Shepard Fairey debuted a mural with Cincinnati’s ArtWorks organization. Described as “…part of ArtWorks’ nonpartisan ‘Get Out the Vote’ project to inspire civic engagement,” the painting of a permanent mural was also accompanied by several of Fairey’s wheatpaste installations (which feature similar themes and messaging). In the days after their placement, just a few weeks before the 2024 US presidential election, several of the wheatpastes were vandalized. What remains of these pieces are simply scraps with the above example feeling particularly poignant.
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View from the The Mercantile Library, a downtown Cincinnati institution.
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Sawyer Point Stairs, Cincinnati:
Last Updated: March 31, 2025
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Last Updated: March 31, 2025 —
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