Photo Booklet: Take a Seat Vol. 1

One of the things that defines a photographer’s style is subject matter. I shoot a lot in the streets but that’s not my style or subject, necessarily, it’s just the environment in which I tend to find the subject matter that appeals to me.

Within this environment, people are generally the most interesting subjects to me, but I’m also drawn to architecture, cars and motorcycles, sidewalk detritus, and other things — combinations of these elements and more make up scenes of uniquely urban composition.

But something else that has always caught my eye, no matter where I am, are places to sit. From park benches in amazing or weird locations to random chairs that show up on sidewalks (especially things like that), places to sit have always drawn my interest and the attention of my camera.

I mentioned in a recent blog post that I’ve been slowly but steadily working my way through my Lightroom catalog, meta-tagging images as a way to expose themes and groups of subjects. But places to sit is a subject that I’ve long held an interest in, and have built a pretty significant collection of images around it.

So this booklet (zine, whatever) has been a long time in the making. It started as prints in my wall system over a year ago, and after staring at it and sequencing and re-sequencing it I finally got it to a place where I liked the flow of the images. These photographs were all captured early in my fascination with this generally pretty inconspicuous subject, with a variety of cameras both film and digital, and because I’ve been continuing to compile pictures of places to sit, I felt pretty confident appending this effort as Vol. 1.

So take a look, and please buy one if you like it. I only made 25 copies to start — 28 color and black & white images across 30 pages printed on 100 lb. satin finish paper with a slightly heavier cover stock — and I’ll throw in a random print of a photo from the book (taken from the wall sequencing system) with each order of this first run.