Tag: parking lot

Homage à Keith

Santa Monica, California

Keith Goldstein is a fantastic NY photographer who has been publishing a long running series of traffic cones on his blog, For Earth Below. When I saw this parking lot last month, where the police are managing the staging of support for Los Angeles fire victims, I couldn’t help taking a few shots in homage.

Liminal

Arles, France

We arrived in Arles late in the afternoon of June 30th, the day before the festival opened. With nothing much to do I decided to reconnoitre the area. Our hotel was out on the edge of town where there are a lot of shopping centers, closed on an early Sunday evening. It was like a vast liminal space, punctuated here and there by a shop people must drive to (see below – click an image to enlarge them).

Car Park

Farnham, UK

When the pandemic first led to lock-downs, in March of 2020, we had just started a month in an AirBnB in St Petersburg Florida and I thought all the empty parking lots were a telling sign of the times. Since then, I am always struck by the wide open expanses of empty parking lots, so well evoked by Joni Mitchell’s famous song, Big Yellow Taxi. Below are a couple more from the same walk around Farnham in early August.