Chinatown

 

 

I grew up on the edge of Chinatown in San Francisco and later lived for ten years in New York City’s Chinatown. These images were taken at night in both of those neighborhoods.

In my photographs there is frequently an undercurrent of discomfort, of movement, as if the subject were breathing, offering itself to be found and seen; apprehended if not fully understood.  Evocations of feeling states:  weightlessness, warmth or cold, anxiety or hope, induce a shifting response—sometimes pleasurable, sometimes difficult— reflecting complicated states of existence.

 

 

 

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