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Opinion | The Badlands Hold Me as I Grieve

Few people can put words and photographs to a page like Rebecca Norris Webb

The Solitary Architecture of Art Careers: Thriving with Community

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View into a pickup truck from the front. A woman and man sit in the cab. A rock guard on hood reads, "Skull fucker."

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Omaha, NE. March 2026.

#Photography #Omaha #OmahaStreets #FoundWords

Black spray painting on a red brick wall that reads, "Gots to see it through my boy."

Gots to see it through my boy

Kansas City, MO. October 2025.

#Photography #KansasCity #FoundWords

an abandoned church in grenville, new mexico

🎞️ kodak gold

July 2025: water buffaloes and wild horses cool off together. By December 2025, airport expansion threatens this centuries-old herding tradition on Istanbul's outskirts. Both photos were taken on assignment for Climavore x Jameel at the RCA.

#photography

Cheers, that means a lot coming from you, Jim.

A weathered sign with handwritten text reads, "All I Want is for Morals, Honer [misspelled], and Love For God and Country to be Real Again!"

Morals, honer, and love for God and country

This one put me in a quandary. I found this sign crumpled and only half-visible in the hedge behind where it lays here. For my found words project, is it cheating to move it? Ethical dilemmas...

Omaha, NE. February 2026.

#Omaha #FoundWords

An extra layer of irony being that the US/UK-backed coup in 1953 was a key catalyst for the 1979 revolution

Sign on the edge of a sinkhole downtown that reads, "Dear 67th St. sinkhole: you think you're cute getting all the attention huh?? Well, you're nothing but a sidepiece sinkhole!

Sinkhole drama heating up here in Omaha.

Also: Sidepiece Sinkhole isn't a bad band name.

#Omaha #OmahaStreets

YES! Need to make another trip west

lmao, the later part of your take was along the lines of what I was thinking when I ran across this painting (how they imagine they are being viewed by others).

The original might unironically be one of my favorite paintings.

Illustration of a bare-chested man flexing his bicep while six men in different hair styles watch. Overlaid text reads “Operation Epic Fury.”

I'm still working on a project pairing historic paintings with new context.

This one features Osmar Schindler’s Muskelspiel (Muscle Flexing), 1907.

1. Two children sitting on a sofa with eyes closed. One of them is holding a videogame controller 2. Two taxidermy fawns, posed as if living in a museum case.

A big question for any artist is "When is it finished?". Often, the answer is "Well, never really - but at some point you just have to stop working on it."

My mum passing away a few weeks ago felt like a good place to stop with my project "Museum", & call it Finished.

www.damoncharles.com/museum

Planters with flowers of different colors stand on pavement in front of a train station featuring Beaux-Arts architectural style. A banner featuring the Titanic hangs on the side of the building. A man in a yellow vest sits on a bench near the building on the left side of the frame.

Exhibition opening soon

Kansas City, MO. October 2025.

#Photography #KansasCity

A snowy walkway leads to a mural on the side of a wall depicting a summer garden with Greek columns and statues.

Omaha, NE. February 2026.

#Photography #Omaha #OmahaStreets

A single-story building with weathered pastel-pink siding sits on the right in the foreground. A factory and yellow truck lie in the distance a few blocks away on the left. A sign on the building reads, "Peregoy custom cabinets."

Council Bluffs, IA. December 2025.

#Photography #NewTopographics #Iowa

Two men on a street corner face each other in conversation. The doors to a car and sight-seeing bus lie in a line behind their faces.

From the archives. Los Angeles, CA. February 2016.

#Photography #StreetPhotography #LosAngeles

Three short trees cast in shadow stand in front of an old brick power plant bathed in the orange light of the setting sun.

Vicinity Energy plant.

Kansas City, MO. December 2025.

#Photography #KansasCity #NewTopographics

The side of an abandoned home that is falling apart reads, "I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up and all that. It was on a Sunday, I remember. My Sister was only a very tiny child then, and She was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean."

Found words series

Wasilla, AK. April 2014.

#Photography #FoundWords #Wasilla

I used to spend time in Cornwall for work at electricity substations - I always made time for photography.
The Holga, some HP5, a red filter and darkroom time MADE this photograph - it wasn’t taken, captured or shot 😉 and it had nothing to do with what we call a bunch of crows.
#believeinfilm 😂

A view across a street in a downtown shows the side of two buildings. On the left, there is a blank cement wall. At right, there's a large mural of people on a wagon train.

Wagon train

St. Joseph, MO. January 2026.

#Photography #StJoseph #NewTopographics

Green text spray painted on a highway bridge concrete guard rail reads, "Flirt. Gather hats. Have fun!" A forest-lined river, railroad bridge, and city buildings lie in the distance beyond the text.

Found words series

Kansas City, KS. October 2025.

#Photography #KansasCity #FoundWords #NewTopographics

Ripped fragments of yellowed pages from a book lay in the snow.

Found words series

Ripped pages from what appears to be a book of daily Bible readings (?)

Omaha, NE. November 2025.

#Photography #Omaha #FoundWords

A man in a suit walks out of a store carrying a plastic bag. He's in shadow except for a splash of light that illuminates his face, white undershirt, and red tie. He is wearing glasses and is looking down toward the street.

A glass soda bottle with a red label sits in a payphone booth. A sign to its upper left reads, "Collect Calls Dial #11." A metal-enclosed telephone wire curves to its left. The bottle and lettering is bathed in light.

From the archives. Los Angeles, CA. 2017.

#Photography #StreetPhotography #LosAngeles

#BlueskyArtShow #NewYear Winds from the north bringing snow in North East Scotland.

A concrete support of a highway overpass meets the ground in the center of the image. The concrete support is partially bathed in light. Red grafitti on the concrete support reads, "We let in a felon before a woman. Fuck Trump." Smaller black writing around the grafitti reads, "Your body my choice," "Faggot," and Cope +Seethe." Two trees are visible in sunlight on the right. A shadowy figure partially bathed in light walks beneath the overpass on the left.

Found words series

Council Bluffs, IA. November 2025.

#Photography

bud's die(sel)

📍van horn, tx
🎞️kodak portra 160

The illuminated exterior of a casket factory at night. In the background is a roller-coaster and light trails from a passing truck.

Adventure Park USA.

Outside New Market, MD. 2026.