It always feels like Christmas to get film scans back

I could write 1000 poems about my immense gratitude for nature. I could write 100,000 poems about how much better it is to stare at nature next to the person I love most. @davidwalterbanks.bsky.social

I’m working on finishing up narrowing down lots and lots of photos from my long-term documentary project on retirementville for my book and it has been fun seeing similar scenes, some photos that were photographed a decade apart

I wish the people who hired us knew the hoops (or even how to do it) because these huge companies all have different invoicing systems that make zero sense. It’s wild

Brb I have to spend 2 hours trying to figure out how to invoice a French museum through a French website where everything is sorta translated to English

Majorette Mary Zirbel and her baton in Sun City, 2024 and 2021

“We’re going to be the David to the government’s Goliath.”

Anthony Romero, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, photographed in Atlanta, Georgia for The New York Times.

Something I have to Google every single time I make an invoice because my brain refuses to retain this number: “federal mileage rate 2024”

She hoped her pregnancy story would matter. Then came election night. A Georgia woman who experienced a delay in care because of an abortion ban shared her experience in hopes of influencing her friends and family.

Gift link to the article: wapo.st/4fzbvZK

Sensitivity warning: Pregnancy Loss | “She hoped her pregnancy story would matter. Then came election night. A Georgia woman who experienced a delay in care because of an abortion ban shared her experience in hopes of influencing her friends & family.” Photos by me, Reporting by Caroline Kitchener

A sweet man I photographed for a sad story this year died. I'm reminded of how comforting photos can be to those who are left behind & I'm glad I took some happy photos of him & his wife so I can send those to her.
He wept when we spoke in May. This heart was hanging on his front door.