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The Seattle Public library has this strange 2nd floor in which everything--floor, walls, ceiling, stairs, lights, doors--is painted red. In this spot, immersed in the red, you look out toward a balcony of sorts and through to the outside trapezoidal skeleton of the building itself. The light from outside reflects on the red walls and has an interesting effect that caught my attention.
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Photo taken: Sunday, February 17, 2013
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Anna who is also a photographer was nice enough to help me shoot some photos. My favorite colors in shots are red and yellow, so I really wanted to use these colors. She had the red shoes, and we found this chair in her basement of a building so we dragged it in the middle of this hallway.
Dress: Valentino
Shoes: Vero Cuoio
Many doors and windows in this abandoned farm house, like portals, invite in the sun to bathe the red floor in sweet light.
Powerful typography and provocative messaging collide in this immersive installation by conceptual artist Barbara Kruger at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. Known for her signature visual language that combines black-and-white imagery with bold, declarative text, Kruger here takes over the physical space itself—wrapping walls, floor, and ceiling with confrontational questions and commands rendered in high-contrast red, black, and white.
The photograph centers on a nondescript black door, over which hangs the question: “WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU LAUGHED?” The white text is printed in Kruger’s familiar Futura Bold Oblique typeface, demanding immediate attention. Beneath the viewer’s feet (and printed upside-down from this vantage), her floor text begins to reveal itself: “VIOLENCE BECAUSE IT’S...”, suggesting more language continues beyond the frame. The wall-mounted words, partially visible to the left and right, reinforce the installation’s scale and enveloping nature.
Kruger’s text-based art functions like a billboard or protest sign—intentionally loud, visually arresting, and intellectually invasive. Her work critiques consumerism, gender dynamics, cultural power structures, and language itself. At the Hirshhorn, the entire gallery is transformed into a site-specific experience that forces visitors to consider how messaging and environment influence emotion, memory, and identity.
The composition of the image is minimalist yet packed with tension. The door, physically uninviting, becomes a psychological hinge—an exit, perhaps, from the relentless text, or maybe a metaphorical passageway to self-reflection. By anchoring the image around this black void, the viewer is asked to grapple not only with the content of the words, but also with their own absence of laughter—or, conversely, its recent presence. Kruger’s prompt isn’t rhetorical; it is pressing.
The installation is part of the Hirshhorn’s ongoing commitment to presenting contemporary artists who challenge norms and engage with modern life through critical, often uncomfortable questions. The artist’s deployment of language-as-architecture turns the museum from a passive display space into a thought-provoking experience—a place where introspection, dissent, and cultural interrogation unfold in bold capital letters.
Visitors may feel unsettled, invigorated, or amused. That’s the point. In an age of information saturation, Kruger’s insistence on clarity, intensity, and blunt confrontation is both timeless and urgently of the moment. Whether you laugh or not, you will remember.
Anne of Green Gables
This is the room in the house in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, that supposedly belonged to Anne, the orphaned child that came to live with Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert.
People come from all over the world to visit Prince Edward Island. It is amazing to see the industry that has been developed around a fictional character. The Japanese, especially, seem to be in love with the Anne stories.
(I am in the process of learning how to use Elements and did manage quite a transformation on this photo. I'm amazed at the ability it has to correct distortion...)
Truth is, no one knows what Irene was looking at in this photograph, but honestly it doesn't matter. This is one hell of a pose.
Preparing dinner at Dev and Sabrina's, San Francisco.
When it comes to cooking, Dev keeps his hands behind his back.
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Camera: Hasselblad 500c
Film: Kodak Ektar 100
Location: Central Library - Seattle, Washington
A friend has graciously lent me his Hasselblad 500c for awhile. I've been coveting one for quite sometime now, but have never had funds available to purchase one (someday!). I'll admit I've built up this camera to near mythical proportions in my head, and was a bit worried about a let down. Thankfully it did not disappoint and to be perfectly honest I absolutely love shooting with it. I already don't look forward to the day i have to return it.
The above shot, is the first exposure I took with the Hasselblad. The Red Floor in the Seattle Central Library, is by no means an easy floor to photograph, so I was quite pleased with the results. Giddy might be a better way to describe how I felt when I was scanning in this image.
Barbie, circa 1958.
My older cousin Karen gave this to me years ago. I took good car of her. I don't know how Porkchop got hold of her, but he really did a number on her.
I was pissed about this one!!!!!
1. 1/4.2015 - lush <3, 2. 2/4.2015 - getting our culture on., 3. 2/4.2015 - here's where our awesome day of fun started., 4. 3/4.2015 - last one. #dunkindonuts, 5. 3/4.2015 - easter bunny, 6. 4/4.2015 - one out, two in + pawprints, 7. 5/4.2015 - pear espalier - the beginning!, 8. 6/4.2015 - what do bunnies think about?, 9. 7/4.2015 - husband has the week off, 10. 8/4.2015 - fearless wonder woman, 11. 9/4.2015 - bunny scan, 12. 10/4.2015 - delicate, 13. 10/4.2015 - squee! #redfloor #nofilter #newkitchen, 14. 11/4.2015 - hello fuzz head, 15. 12/4.2015 - sharpies!, 16. 13/4.2015 - bobbaloo fun, 17. 14/4.2015 - getting fuzzy, 18. 15/4.2015 - trying out a choir, 19. 16/4.2015 - batman + cat(woman), 20. 17/4.2015 - spring is bustin' out all over!, 21. 18/4.2015 - planting potatoes, 22. 19/4.2015 - a transformation is underway. #creagive #stationen, 23. 19/4.2015 - final coat of red on the kitchen floor, 24. 22/4.2015 - we found charlie!, 25. 23/4.2015 - molly moment, 26. 22/4.2015 - bring spring indoors. #cornersofmyhome, 27. 24/4.2015 - they grow up so fast!, 28. 25/4.2015 - a walk on the beach, 29. 26/4.2015 - kitchen progress, 30. 25/4.2015 - the opening of Peter Broberg's Bro (Bridge), 31. 27/4.2015 - totally gnarly man, 32. 28/4.2015 - hello there x-wing. #legoland #starwars #latergram, 33. 29/4.2015 - now with windows so clean you can see yourself in them! #reflection #spejling #creagive, 34. 30/4.2015 - best cat paws in the world. #friedagram #catsofinstagram #catperson #waterbaby35. Not available36. Not available
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Camera: Zero 2000 Pinhole
Film: Kodak Portra 400
Location: Central Library, Seattle
The Seattle Central Library's Red Floor is a location I have shot on several previous occasions, and for good reason it is a wonderfully unique experience to walk through it. I have said before that I hope someday a horror film or suspense thriller uses this location for a scene of a film, it seems taylor made for the likes of Stanley Kubrick perhaps.
This is image was taken from my first roll shot on my Zero 2000. It is a 20 minute exposure, and I am rather surprised at how well it turned out. The floor is rather dark, photographically speaking anyway and I feared 20 minutes wasn't enough time. Honestly a longer exposure probably would have produced better results but my lunch hour only lasts so long. The neon green streak in the middle of the photo is from the elevator door opening and closing numerous times throughout the exposure.
Their is a funny story associated to this photograph. Knowing I was going to take a rather long exposure, I sat myself down next to a pillar (its just left of this image), hoping to not be in anyones way. Almost as soon as I opened the shutter of the camera up, a girl comes slowly walking down the hallway towards me. I just had this feeling she was going to bother me in some fashion, and sure enough she asked me if she could sit next to me. I didn't really give her a definitive answer more of a look of puzzlement and a nod. Anyway as soon as she sat down to my left she let a kitten out of her bag along with a bag of food and a cup of water. She was trying to not be bothered with her cat, and thought the pillar was a good hiding spot. So their I sat for 20 minutes, just me, my camera, a girl and her cat.
"Laughter is the fireworks of the soul" - Josh Billings
January 3,2016
Davey, The Netherlands
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If just for a moment.
Yet another offering from Seattle’s Central Library. This time from the 3rd floor Red Hall. The tonal range and dynamic lighting available in the hall’s corridors provides an almost endless amount of photographic possibilities. It also proves challenging as the library does not allow the use of tripods. This shot of the semi-translucent polka-dotted wall and its reflection was created by placing my Holga on the ground exposing the film for 20 seconds.
I have started to kick around the idea of creating a book of images from the Central Library. Its easily my favorite spot in the city to photograph. I was at the library the day of this shot to begin walking each floor taking notes of things I want to shoot for the project. There is no set deadline for this shot, and it might take me some time to get a collection of photographs I am satisfied with enough to make a book out of. I look forward to the project, having a set goal helps me stay focused and advance my photographic skills.
Sometimes when people notice the camera they suddenly become their own little "flash mob" of fun. This guy started mugging doing something akin to the monster mash. I started cracking up, he walked coolly past me like nothing at all had happened. I like his shadow.
We talked about cheesecake, analog things, and awful green room experiences. Nice guy! His shirt also says "My machine goes BLAUW! BLAUW! BLAUW!"
Greene Street Club | February 9, 2011
Assistant: Aren Blake
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'This is major Tom to ground control, I'm stepping through the door'
Camera: Diana F+
Film: Kodak Portra 400
Location: Central Library - Seattle
The third floor corridors of Seattle's Central Library are entirely red. It makes for a very other worldly feeling, as if you in a spaceship. This was shot on bulb mode steadied on the ground for about 15 seconds.
This is the same hall as one of my creepier selfies, but in its less malevolent form.
This is the 4th floor of the Seattle Public Library - Central/Downtown branch. When I was a Teen Center Adviser at the library, I thought it would be super cool for us to film a little ad running through the halls, screaming. I forgot what corny tag line is was for, possibly "killer books, at a library near you".
It's my favorite floor at the library, just because it's usually the empty. It's a business meeting /workshop hall.