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Brian Sokolowski

@brian_sokolowski

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Dad, Husband, Photographer, chronic Resting Bitch Face. But I’m not angry I promise.

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Dogs of The Redland.
#socialdocumentary #documentaryphotography #burnmagazine #documentary #abandoned by @brian_sokolowski

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2 months ago

I didn’t set out to photograph the dogs. Like most things in the Redland, they found me first — one crossing a flooded road at dawn, stopping to drink from its own reflection.

Out here on the farm roads of southwest Miami-Dade, on the edge of the Everglades, abandonment is hardly new. No streetlights, no cell service. People leave what they no longer want where no one’s watching. Some dogs get left when a family moves on. Others are dropped at the roadside like the furniture beside them. It’s unrelenting. Some find homes with the people who live here, some don’t.

I came to document this strange world. The dogs were already here. I’ll continue to photograph them when they let me.
#documentary #socialdocumentary #burnmagazine #documentaryphotography #redland taken in Redlands Miami-Dade County by @brian_sokolowski

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2 months ago

I had no interest in color work until 2013. Swore I wouldn’t shoot color. Turns out, I lied.
#streetphotography #streets_storytelling #socialdocumentary #chicagostreetphotography #burnmagazine taken in Chicago, Illinois by @brian_sokolowski

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3 months ago

Fun fact. When I made this photo it was the last exposure on that roll. I was just taking anything so I could go home and develop. I didn’t notice the head over me, and the claw wrapped around my shoulder at all.
I was also actively fighting my addiction to painkillers at the time. My demon hanging over me? Who knows?🤷🏼
#mediumformat #tlr #addiction #chicago #burnmagazine taken in Chicago, Illinois by @brian_sokolowski

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2 days ago

The kind of shit photographers/ artists have to/ had to deal with forever. Never asked. Just took. ‘Exposure.’ Fuck your exposure.😆 by @brian_sokolowski

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23 days ago

Submitting my SRO work to several publications. So many photographs that didn’t make the cut. Yet they’re all permanently stuck in my memory. Funny going through a half a lifetime of work it is.
#documentary #documentaryphotography #chicago #srohousing taken in Chicago, Illinois by @brian_sokolowski

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25 days ago

Not the recital. Not the held line for the judges. The floor afterward — the ache in her knee she’s working with both hands, still in her hoodie, already spent.

My daughter dances. I’ve started shooting what it actually costs her: the injuries, the exhaustion, the long unglamorous hours between the moments everyone claps for.

She doesn’t perform for the camera. She’s grown up with a father who points one at everything, and somewhere along the way it stopped being a thing that happens to her. She just lets me stay in the room.

Part documentary project, part excuse — she’s at the age where she’s pulling away, the way she’s supposed to, and this gives me a reason to be there as long as she lets me.

More soon.
#documentary #documentaryphotography #dancer #daughter #burnmagazine taken in Miami, Florida by @brian_sokolowski

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a month ago

#filmphotography #portrait #pentax67 #mediumformat by @brian_sokolowski

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a month ago

Not every photo is going to work. Most will be failures.
#documentary #socialdocumentary #documentaryphotography #burnmagazine taken in Miami, Florida by @brian_sokolowski

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a month ago

Dogs of the Redland.
Some of my photographs are hard to look at. But it’s the truth.
#socialdocumentary #documentaryphotography #burnmagazine #documentary #abandoned taken in Miami, Florida by @brian_sokolowski

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2 months ago

The most pragmatic, even “ugly” things we build — signs, lots, wires, storefronts — keep producing a poetry nobody designed. Function and place fall into step on their own. Beauty not in spite of utility, but because of it.

I didn’t know that’s what this was when I started. I just kept photographing these places. The meaning showed up in the edit — the pictures told me what I’d been looking at before I could’ve said it out loud.
#mediumformat #nightphotography #burnmagazine #filmisnotdead #socialdocumentary by @brian_sokolowski

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2 months ago