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Brooklyn Desk Creative is the quasi-business site of Jeremy Speer, itinerant photographer and web geek. The name comes from my time in Minnesota while my wife was getting her PhD. I used to send letters and emails to friends back east and called them “dispatches from the Brooklyn desk.” For better or worse the name stuck. Photography has been a part of my life essentially since birth. My father was what you might call a “practitioner” of the craft. A consummate lousy businessman, he never made much money with his camera, but photography was part of his life. He was a student of Minor White and agreed with White’s opinion that photography could be a meditative, and personally transformative tool. Through his association with White, who later founded Aperture, he was asked to write the frontispiece/introduction for an edition of Aperture’s monograph of White’s work “Rites and Passages” (but amazingly there is no evidence he actually did this if you don’t happen to own a copy of the book). I suspect he was asked to write the piece by Aperture’s editors as a way to placate his growing frustration with Aperture not paying his consulting invoices. Little wonder he never…
Bruneau Dunes
Taken on my last trip (May 24, 2008) to Bruneau Dunes.
Just a photo to remind me of a special place.
