Southwest Blvd, Kansas City, KS/MO

Here is a selection of some of the horizontal photographs I have made along Southwest Blvd in Kansas City (I will post the vertical images another time). Southwest Blvd is a location I have kept returning to, over and over again and I am attracted somehow by it's open urban spaces, concrete, cars, chain-link fences, railroad tracks and scattered business's, making it extremely photogenic and iconic of the America within me, evoking childhood memories of a place never visited. Whilst walking around Southwest Blvd I am often filled with an eerie sense of de'ja' vu, an experience which is both strange, familiar and compelling.

On the north end Southwest Boulevard starts as 19th Street at Baltimore Avenue in Kansas City, MO, and travels southwest crossing the state line into Kansas City, KS at 31st Street and continues until crossing 39th Avenue at which point it continues as Merriam Lane. Southwest Boulevard passes through the Crossroads Arts District and the West Side Neighborhood in Missouri and also the Rosedale Neighborhood in Kansas.

Pistol & Fur Book

New years Eve by Simon Kossoff

The excellent UK based photo-collective Pistol & Fur have published a book where I have one of my photographs included in it. I have been a huge fan of P&F for a long time now and love their vision and it comes as a great honor for me to have been chosen to be part of this new project. Many thanks to Jason Hynes, it's editor and creator on what looks to be a beautiful book.Thank you.

Hers's the Blurb about the book from Pistol & Fur's website:

51 page hand-made, limited edition of 100 books, size A6 book, includes 49 colour images from 49 photographers from the Pistol & Fur Collective. Each book is hand-made to order. Book pages are printed on professional 170gsm matt ink jet photographic paper, Book cover is made from 100% recycled card.

Photographers included in the book are:

Anabel Navarro,Goran Jovanovic,Louis Little,Pierre Wayser,Jelena Martinovic,Shelbie Dimond,Alexander Alekseenko,Sergiy Barchuk,Stephanie Gonot,Michael J Demeo,Johann Watzke,Bez Uma,Ana Himes,Erin Meehan,Carly Scott,Erika Braukis,Riccardo Nava,Samantha Casolari,Vins Baratta,Nina Zivkovic,Sara Visconti,Johnny De Guzman,Danny Hopkins,Derek Vincent,Alex Bloundele, Hanna Kallebo Neikter,Terry Westwood,Gabriel Chemery,Pipiabat,Kirill Kuletski,Maria Kopytova,Alex Catt,Nickolay Dyadechko,Daniel Ribar,Adele M Reed,Michael ten Pas,Ana Pereira,Steven Philip Brown,Claudia Moroni,Danielle Velterelle,Elina Nilsson,Herve Demers,Ramell Ross,Vivian Weidmann,Simon Kossoff,Victoria A. Lisbet,Benedetta Falugi,Maggie Shannon,Zhengdong Xu.

To order a copy of this book or explore P&F's website, follow this link:http://cargocollective.com/pistolfur/#785355/pistol-fur

Postcards From Pittsburgh, PA

AUBADE Magazine Issue 5

Aubade magazine issues 5 has been published and from the looks of the preview, it promises to be another excellent journal for contemporary photography, painting and creative writing. For Chris Turner, its creator, editor and designer Aubade is a labor of love and with each new issue his editorial eye is becoming more refined in it's vision.

My gratitude and thanks go to Chris for his faith and continued interest in my own work and I am proud to have had images published in all five issues to date. The latest issue includes a photograph from Middlesbrough Kentucky, an image I made on my most recent road trip from New York City to Kansas, which, I was delighted to discover, chosen for this months cover. Thank you Chris and keep up the good work - Aubabe magazine is a very special thing.

Aubade issue 5 and it's back issues can be ordered and previewed at Magcloud's website here:

http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/218527