Overland Park, KS (VI) Rio Theatre

The Rio is a restored Art Deco cinema in downtown Overland Park, which shows mainly art house and independent movies. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in February of 2005.

Here is a selection of new images from my continuing series about Overland Park, Kansas, where I live.

Overland Park has been consistently ranked in the top 10 best cities to live in the United States, by CNN/Money magazine. Additionally, the city was ranked one of the ‘best places to raise your kids’ and also ranked 3rd for ‘America’s 10 best places to grow up’. As a photographer this news comes as an inspiration and something of a shock to me and I have decided to explore what it is that gives Overland Park this status.

Cabelas



Hearing aids, Cabelas

Bass Pro



Fishing Tackle

Trapper, Cabelas

Decoys, Bass pro

Gun Library, Cabelas

Bass Pro and Cabelas are both massive and popular national American chain stores specializing in the selling of outdoor, hunting and fishing gear. Everything and anything, from Guns, Boats, Fishing Tackle, Camping Gear and Outdoor Clothing can be bought there. Services such as trophies and taxidermy are also available and the knowledge of the staff is extensive. Recently I made a visit to two of these stores and I was both impressed and overwhelmed by their extensive selection of guns and other weapons and their often gruesome displays of dead animals, which are exhibited throughout the stores in pride of place and posed in dramatic and realistic postures and environments. They are places where I am looking forward to making lots of new work.

Salina, KS II (Vertical)

Here are a few more images I made on my trip to Salina, Kansas.

Salina, KS (Horizontal)

Recently I made a short trip to Salina Kansas, where my wife had a conference. This is a selection of the horizontal images I made whilst wondering around the town on that afternoon. Salina is located apx 164 miles west of Kansas City on Interstate 70. And is, I was told on my return, very close to the geographical centre of the USA.

Here are three images from an on-going series I have been working on called Damaged Goods.

Recently I contributed as a guest photographer three more images from this personal work to the wonderful website aamora.com which can be found at this link. Many thanks to Aaron Schwartz for the great work he does there.

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