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Snapshots: Candid photography by Christopher Crawford

These are just quick snapshots made with a handheld 35mm camera that I often carry with me. These are spur of the moment shots, unlike most of my work which is carefully planned and previsualized before making the exposure.

35 Photographs

 

A car in a parking garage with a bumper sticker on it that says LOVE WINS.

 

A little boy looking at an abandoned greenhouse in rural Whitley County, Indiana

 

A bench along the seawall in Corpus Christi, Texas. Someone has painted the lyrics to the song Obsessin by Sugababes. "You are a butterfly, a wild butterfly. I will collect you and capture you."

 

Yellow Tulip Flower in black and white.

 

Kids playing in the fountain at Headwaters Park in Fort Wayne during Three Rivers Festival. A baby runs through the water in his diaper while his mother and older sister watch.

 

Fat long haired cat stretching his back on the sofa under an Ansel Adams poster.

 

An old woman sits on her bed while talking on the telephone. Her black cat stares at me from the bed.

 

An elderly woman wearing a bathrobe washes dishes in her kitchen

 

A black and white bicolor cat sits on a cat tree next to a window in an apartment.

 

A male black and white bicolor cat sitting on a bed.

A fat old long haired cat staring at the camera. A toy dog lays on the cat's bed by the patio door windows.

 

A sidewalk covered in chalk drawings of hearts on the Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne campus. The sidewalk chalk drawings were made by antiabortion activists. One of the hearts is drawn as a broken heart.

 

Kids sitting in the fountain at Headwaters Park in Fort Wayne during the Three Rivers Festival.

 

An old Hispanic woman sits on her bed watching television with her arms crossed. Her room is filled with crosses, Betty Boop dolls, and statues of the Virgin Mary.

 

An old woman sits on her bed watching television and drinking coffee. Her walls are covered with crucifixes, statues of the Virgin Mary, and Betty Boop dolls.

 

A long haired cat jumping off a box behind a house.

 

An old hispanic woman in Santa Fe sits on her bed petting her sleeping cats and reading the newspaper.

 

An elderly woman sits in her bedroom opening the mail and watching television. She is a devout Catholic with crosses and statues of the Virgin Mary all over the walls. She also has two Betty Boop dolls.

 

An elderly woman sits on her bed looking at her cat in the window.

 

An old hispanic woman sits on her bed writing a letter. Her black ca is looking out the window under a crucifix. Two Betty Boop dolls hang on the wall.

 

 

 

 

Christopher Crawford
Fort Wayne, IN

chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com

 

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A string of milkweed seed pods tied between two trees in the woods in rural Indiana in the spring.

 

An old enameled tea kettle sits on the stove with half-empty liquor bottles behind it.

 

A little girl waits impatiently with her hands on her hips while a clown makes a balloon animal for her at Union Station in Indianapolis.

 

An African American man with dreadlocks dances on the sidewalk while smoking a cigar in front of the Chicago Public Library on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.

 

A disabled African American man panhandles from his wheelchair on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. A rich woman carrying a crate & barrel bag walks past without looking at him.

 

Bored salesman behind the counter at Camera & Darkroom in Santa Fe. Camera and Darkroom is a large camera store in New Mexico.

 

An elderly African American street musician plays his saxophone on Chicago's Michigan Avenue in the late 1990's.

 

A teenage boy's bedroom with music posters and teen posters all over the walls and ceiling.

 

A cat lounges on a child's bed surrounded by toys.

 

A sad looking Great Pyrenees dog lies on the floor with her head sticking out of the doorway. Big white long haired dog with sad eyes.