Wednesday, December 10, 2014
© Photo by Steve Keegan 2014, All Rights Reserved.My day 4 offering for the Black & White Photo Challenge is this detail shot I took while working on a photo story of a homeless man named Mike Burgess about 15 years ago. There is water on Mike's left hand because he asked if he could wash his hands before I made this image of him holding his "favorite book." While shooting an image of his hands being even dirtier might have made for a better photo, I felt it was important to not treat him differently than any other photo subject I was covering that might have made a similar request. The fact that you can still see how dirty and weathered his hands look even after they've been ...