Writer, photographer, Hunger Artist, Bach freak

Mayor, Goof City

Welcome to my free-for-all flickr photo farm. This is not the cream of my crop--it's the whole 40 acres and a mule, including fine dining, light snacks, totally non-nutritive filler junk food and outright garbage. Stuff that perhaps should never have been harvested and left for compost, but here it is, for your consideration. May you find something to your taste. Food for thought, at least.

I began my column The Ax Files in 2005 with the broad announcement: I am here to write whatever I want, whenever I want, for whatever it's worth.

Same with photography. "I photograph anything that can be exposed to light," as Imogen Cunningham put it. More specifically, I photograph anything that catches my eye--because it's lovely, sad, tragic, boring, there.

Some of my obsessions are pigeons (the underdog of the bird world), abandoned shoes (all the lonely shoes; where do they all come from?), bulldogs (because some of my best friends are), X for Alexandra, 55 for the year of my birth, and the soulless people known as mannequins. They are dead yet alive.

I practice street photography as social documentation of both political and human conditions. I take photos only in public spaces and situations. If you see yourself here and do not wish to be included, please send me a flickr mail.

If you take a photo of something you are saying, "This is worth looking at. This is how I saw it." I hope you enjoy seeing what I saw. Cheers!

The Ax Files axfiles.com

Greetings from Goof City mayorjones.tumblr.com

Flickr stream www.fluidr.com/photos/alexandrajones/

Streets of Goof City goofcitygraphix.tumblr.com/

Instagram instagram.com/mayorjones#/

Official website of the City of Goof City goofcity.com under reconstruction