Baseball silhouette

Baseball silhouette
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A player waits on deck during a baseball game in Athens, OH.

Bake

Bake
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Beth, an employee of the Big Chimney Bread Company in Athens, OH makes pastries during the afternoon of May 25th. She has been working there for a little more than a year and plans on soon moving to Texas with her boyfriend.

Jake #2

Jake #2
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Part of an environmental portrait series of Athens musician, Jake Householder.

Chauncey: High Heels

Chauncey: High Heels
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Part of a photo essay on the youth in the impoverished town of Chauncey, OH.

Jake #1

Jake #1
Originally uploaded by matteich.

"And I would choose very carefully what tones I would choose because I knew that when I would play a note I would become that note." -Lorin Hollande

Learning to see

Cleaning up
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"I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything penetrates more deeply into me and does not stop at the place where until now it always used to finish. I have an inner self of which I was ignorant. Everything goes thither now, what happens there I do not know." -Rainer Maria Rilke

A pose

A pose
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Fashion photographer George Kartis poses a model named Bobby during a workshop held at The Hermitage Museum in December 2004.

Chauncey: The demon drop

The demon drop
Originally uploaded by matteich.

"A throw of the dice will never abolish chance." Marcel Duchamp

Chauncey: A child's spiritual dignity

A child's spiritual dignity
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"Give me a madman's sudden insight and the child's spiritual dignity." - Theodore Roethke