Brooklyn Jukebox
After leaving Los Angeles in the fall of 2008, I found myself back in Minnesota figuring out my next move. One day, my friend photographer friend Michael Simon, sent an email to a group of us inquiring if we knew of anyone that was looking for a month long sublet in February, 2009. I’d been contemplating a move to New York, but wasn’t sure how I’d pull it off exactly since I found myself in between jobs. After speaking with a few people, they encouraged me to make the leap. So I did and in a few weeks I found myself on a train headed for New York.
When I arrived I started hunting for a job, but given we were in the middle of ‘great recession’ I was finding it difficult. So I’d spend a few hours a day wandering around New York. I figured if I were only going to be here for a short period of time, I was going to make as many photographs as I could. As February came to an end, I decided to give New York another month, but this time I was headed to Brooklyn, where I really wanted to be. This series documents the period of time I found myself in limbo in 2009, wandering around the city, jumping from sublet to sublet.