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Philly Vigil for Renee Good – NoIcePhilly

Federal IcE agents shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis last week. While there have been peaceful mass protests in MSP and across the US since, in Minneapolis armed federal agents are chasing school buses and knocking on doors demanding access to homes to ‘verify citizenship’.

There was a vigil for Renee Good at City Hall last Thursday evening and about 2000 of us showed up to pay respects and put Trump on notice that the brutal tactics of iCE agents will not be tolerated in our city. We don’t need masked armed gunmen in unmarked cars snatching people off the streets, we need full funding for SEPTA, Schools, affordable housing, improved Medicare for All and a living wage job with union rights and working conditions for anyone who wants to work.

Renee Good is the 4th person to be shot and killed by IcE over the past year, 32 people have died in custody and in addition to the thousands of documented and undocumented immigrants arrested, 100’s of US citizens – including minors – have been detained by federal agents, in some cases for days and weeks with no contact with families or legal defense. Contact NOICEPhilly to get connected

Alienation and Connection

A series of Silver Gelatin prints. Higher Grounds Cafe 631 N 3rd St in Philly

Go Birds! Fly Eagles Fly!

NorthEast Philly Super Bowl LIX victory street party!

NorthEast Philly Superbowl LIX street party

Street work with Cinestill400

Some sample frames from work in progress. Shot 2 rolls of 35mm Cinestill400, a motion picture film that’s been repurposed and marketed for still photography and standard C41 lab chemistry. Found a few light leaks, some interesting color shifts and contrast effects but nothing that would make me use it instead of a more traditional emulsion unless that’s all we’ve got after the zombie apocalypse 🙂

Nikon F100 35mm SLR with various lenses

Ink and paper

3-11-23: Been spending some time printing photos to hang. It’s been refreshing to work with paper again after so much screen time these past couple years. I’ve made all the prints with a ‘hybrid’ process: film capture and development in C-41 chemistry by a local lab, then scanned and digitized, with basic ‘darkroom’ work done on the computer in adobe lightroom, then inkjet printed on archival paper. Here’s a teaser of 2 of the pieces from the show that should be up Monday or Tuesday next week 🙂 If you’re in Philly in March, drop by Higher Grounds cafe at 631 N 3rd (3rd and Fairmount) and take a looksie.