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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.

38 Photographs

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A large Great Pyrenees Dog with her head on the floor between her front legs.

 

My mother holds her Great Pyrenees Dog's tail up so that my sister can groom the dog and cut her hair.

 

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 waterfront in Corpus Christi with graffiti of the lyrics to the song Obsession by Sugababes painted on it. "You are a butterfly, a wild butterfly. I will collect you and capture you."

 

Yellow Tulip Flower in black and white.

 

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. Christine Apodaca.

 

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 Giant Microbes toy House Fly eats our pizza at a restaurant while my son looks at it with disgust.

 

A fat shorthaired cat sitting in the middle of a sidewalk.

 

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.

 

An old Hispanic woman sits on her bed watching television with her arms crossed. Her bedroom 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.

 

A long haired cat jumping off of 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. Christine Apodaca.

 

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

 

Christine Apodaca, an elderly Hispanic woman, sits on her bed writing letters while her black cat sits in the window behind her. She has two Betty Boop dolls and a crucifix on the wall.

 

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

An old longhaired cat sits in a darkened room in front of a kitchen cabinet.

 

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. Crown Royal, Smirnoff vodka, and dekuyper creme de menthe.

 

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.

 

A black disabled amputee in a wheelchair begging on Michigan Avenue in Chicago's Magnificent Mile.

 

Bored salesman behind the counter at Camera & Darkroom in Santa Fe.

 

An elderly African-American street musician plays his saxophone on Chicago's Michigan Avenue.

 

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.

 

 

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Christopher Crawford
Fine Art Photography

Fort Wayne, IN

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