Brooklyn Desk Creative

  • Home
  • What is this?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…
  • Day 1,225 – Been Busy
    Observations

    Day 1,225 – Been Busy

    It has been a long time since I last posted something here. And while I have been busy I haven’t been that busy, so I have no excuse. I have been working steadily at the food cart at least three and often four days per week. I have been taking Leon and Kaylee to the dog…

    August 5, 2018
  • Day 939 – End of an Era
    Reportage

    Day 939 – End of an Era

    My relationship with Oregon might be changing.

    October 24, 2017
  • Day 774 – Learning Opportunity
    Reportage

    Day 774 – Learning Opportunity

    The knives are sharp, space is limited, the grills are hot and there is no “undo” button.

    May 13, 2017
  • Day 756 – Words About Mora
    Reportage

    Day 756 – Words About Mora

    The above photo is the last picture I took of our cat Mora. She departed this world April 19, 2017.

    April 26, 2017
Previous Page Next Page

Now Using Ollie

On September 29, 2023 I finally decided to try a “block” theme. This is turning out to be a complete mistake and is reinforcing my feeling that nothing is getting better.

  • Instagram
  • Facebook

© 2023 · Powered by WordPress and Ollie

Visit Ollie

Visit Mike