Alex Milne: Chicago Through a Looking Glass Outside it's America

Monday, 10 May 2010

Chicago Through a Looking Glass Outside it's America

It was really strange arriving and leaving Chicago. I don't think I have ever landed up somewhere where I had no plans to visit so far away from wher i had intended to be. A completely weird experience. And yet I felt very much at home running around the streets and photographing the architecture and the peoplescapes and the portraits. I have been so moved by it that I have suspended everything else in my photographic world to work on a book. It is a sort of "Looking Glass" experience.

And I am grappling with the book. At first it was meant to be a 5 evening effort - start to finish. Then move on. But it hasn't ended up as that. I delve deeper and deeper into it. What do I want it to show.
? How do I want it to work? I want to show the heart beato f the city through its buildings and its people.

So here are some of the images from the book. Charles White was something very special. So comes first!!!