The Impossible Year

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  • Mindy’s Hot Chocolate, 6 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Spent some time cycling the retail corridors of the city and saw some amazing artwork painted on people’s boarded up windows. This Sam Cooke lyric really stuck with me though.

  • Deuce’s, 5 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 While huge parts of the country have erupted in protest, people in Wrigleyville are acting like everything is normal and there is no pandemic.

  • Urban Pooch, 4 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 As Chicago introduced a curfew and braced for a seemingly unending stream of protests, even our local dog daycare place boarded up.

  • Cafe Tola, 3 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Cafe Tola is a small coffee and empanda shop on Southport Avenue that has expanded over the years into a chain of stores all over Chicago. This one however, is near and dear to my heart. In light of everything going on they’ve boarded up…

  • Andie’s Restaurant?, 2 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 A few year back Andie’s Restaurant on Montrose closed ‘for remodels’ and never reopened. This week they put up boards to protect it from looters.

  • Uptown’s Black Lives Matter Protest, 1 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Uptown, the neighborhood immediately to the east of us that we sit on the border of, is one of Chicago’s most diverse neighborhoods, and was the site of one of the city’s largest Black Lives Matter protests yet. It has also been…

  • View from the Garage, 31 May 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 With everything going on in the world I decided to burn off anxious energy by spending Sunday morning cleaning off the roof of our garage and trimming back the tree as much as I can reach. I was able to shoot this photo…

  • BLACK LIVES MATTER, 30 May 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Photos from Saturday’s ‘Justice for George Floyd’ protests in Chicago

  • Fried Chicken, 29 May 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 I spent some time researching how to make fried chicken and put my own spin on it by combining elements from a variety of places. It turned out great. Will eventually publish the recipe.

  • Sleepy Dog, 28 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film If you leave a pile of clean laundry unattended in the house anywhere for even a moment, this little critter will find it and fall asleep in it. Guaranteed.