2 photographs

Waste Management

Hundreds of vintage photographic slides cascade in chaotic abundance, their white Kodachrome and generic cardboard mounts creating a mesmerizing pattern against deep black film apertures. Hand-written labels in faded ink and pencil hint at forgotten camping trips, family gatherings, and personal histories now relegated to this overwhelming pile at SCRAP PDX in Portland's Goose Hollow. The composition transforms discarded memories into an abstract landscape of geometric repetition, where each small window once held a captured moment in time. — ISO 800 · 23mm · f/2 · 1/125

Archive of Abandoned Dreams in White Frames

Portland, Oregon

A dense collection of discarded photographic slides creates an abstract pattern of memory and obsolescence at SCRAP PDX in Portland, Oregon.

Two farmers in matching plaid flannel shirts and work gloves make biochar on a rural property. The man on the right feeds a log into a large metal burn barrel with open flames, while the younger man on the left, wearing a straw cowboy hat, tends to a pile of logs on a trailer. A chainsaw rests on the trailer nearby. A barn, bare-limbed trees, and forested hills are visible in the background under an overcast sky. — ISO 160 · 50mm · f/2.8 · 1/750

Making Biochar

Gales Creek, Oregon

Farmers making biochar at Fraga Farmstead Creamery near Gales Creek, Oregon.