Gymnasium silas-finch I’m saying there are many

I’m saying there are many

Charlie Chaplin

Portraits in Life and Death (1976)

"The last time I photographed Arizona (an eight-year-old girl that I've been photographing since she was one) I did what I always do: I taped a black Walmart sheet to the house

The athletes and wrestlers in this series are studies in contrasts: youth and manhood

Gymnasium silas-finch I’m saying there are manyThe teenage athletes in Luke Smalley's pictures seem inhabitants of some time or place other than the northwestern Pennsylvania towns where the photographer recently found and photographed them. The sensuality of these young athletes seems familiar, their gaze immediate and direct, yet their otherworldly quality remains a product of the artist's unique vision. No telephone or television seems possible in this not quite familiar landscape. For the past