sometimes you try to fold the tripod up but beauty keeps taking over.

'Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.' ~Paul Robeson, born otd in 1898

📸Prentice H. Polk. Paul Robeson, 1942.

working on getting rid of all the conditioning. it’s ugly and beautiful and ugly and necessary.

expression that goes beyond words. that’s the beauty of photography. from one soul to another.

aries baby. give me all the sun.

maybe it’s not about being less afraid, maybe it’s about becoming more brave.

the pure nature of this existence is about being boundless. it’s sad that the state makes us fight for freedom that is a birthright. beautiful thing is, we have tools and must share tools. make your art, share your light, be kind, we’re all fighting for ecstasy.

another day above ground, another opportunity to be filled with ecstasy. give thanks to the source.

untitled - Grindelwald, Switzerland 2022
Andre D. Wagner

The great ones don’t do it for money or fame or power.

Or to build an institution, or to help others, or to save the world.

Like a child tinkering, they create it for its own sake.

Free of the burden of ambition.

Deaf to the demands of the world.

time is not linear - so the idea of new and or old work is foreign to me.

Raymond Saunders youtu.be/6QQUnMlvzTI?si… via YouTube

“I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.... I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.'

📸Gordon Parks. Untitled (Ralph Ellison), 1952.

turn that anger into peace, your body will most definitely thank you.

thinking about summer

jazz night in the darkroom. 30x40” ya dig.

if you spread some love and take some time to listen to your body and energy everything around you will start to vibrate.

To one America, Reverend Al Sharpton has long been a beacon of the civil-rights movement. To another, he was a loudmouth in a tracksuit, surrounded by controversy and shady friends. Pulitzer Prize winner Mitchell S. Jackson tailed Al Sharpton around the country to find out why he keeps going,…

sometimes the worst things are answered prayers.

you get what you give.

there’s a lot of weird words in photography and one thing for sure is that i’m not trying to capture anybody.