Black and white close-up of a polished newspaper box knob on a wooden door
Black-and-white photograph of a round pipe opening set into a concrete wall
Black-and-white photograph of a blurred dark tube in the foreground, with a house out of focus behind it
Black and white close-up of a square metal receptacle jutting from a weathered concrete wall, its background blurred
Soft-focus black and white photograph of two round forms, abstract and dreamlike
Black and white close-up of a round opening in a textured wall, partly obscured by a blurred dark shape in the foreground.
Chrome newspaper box mounted on a metal railing, reflecting the blurred surroundings
Black-and-white close-up of a round opening in a white wall, with a blurred dark form in the foreground and a blurred street beyond.
Blurred black-and-white view through a gap between a white wall and a wooden gate
Keyhole in a door handle, seen in a blurred black-and-white close-up

Empfänger

A camera's focus is a mechanical thing, but it also resembles human attention. Where I place it, a thing exists. Where I let it drift, the thing thins and dissolves into something that was not there before.

I have been photographing newspaper boxes near where I live, metal tubes and plastic tunnels fixed beside front doors and garden fences to receive the daily paper. The papers rarely come anymore, but the boxes have stayed, mostly empty, shifting in and out of visibility.