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A Thousand Words
A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.
August 2023Sound Art
Outside the airport he saw a white girl with dreads in a T-shirt with the Rising Phoenix logo — a bird with wings on fire. She’d even written his name with a Sharpie on a piece of paper, along with the word Media, which is what he’d claimed to be.
April 2023A Thousand Words
A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.
February 2023Unsheltered
Eric Tars On The Human Right To Housing
The Martin v. Boise decision stands for the very simple principle that punishing a homeless person for undertaking basic, life-sustaining activities like sleeping or sheltering themselves — when there’s no adequate alternative accessible to them — is cruel and unusual under the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution.
January 2023On The Streets Of San Francisco
Most days, within a block of my house in San Francisco, I’ll encounter someone who is unhoused. Since 2011 I have befriended and photographed unhoused people, and the experience has changed me in a way I never would have imagined. . . . One man said to me, “Most people see us as drunks, but you talk to us and see our humanity.” This is what I hope my photographs convey.
January 2023I Feel Sorry For Aliens
Lonely nights I walk to the old / elevator that used to hold Montana / grain: beams rusted, train tracks / ripped out, a patchwork of missing / roof panels framing perfect squares / of starlight
December 2022A Thousand Words
A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.
October 2022A Thousand Words
February 2022
A new feature in the magazine, A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.
January 2022A Thousand Words
October 2021
A new feature in the magazine, A Thousand Words is meant to be a place for just this kind of image.
September 2021City Bus, Country Bus
In a bus, bumping elbows with messy humanity, I create memories that will bolster me for life. Our lives, as the author of Job reminds us, are short and full of trouble. The best we can do is connect, share a smile over this gift of existence.
May 2021