to get this story it had echoes and
questions but the journey became for us
as myself my header I think more of a
interior journey because you couldn’t
manifest Lincoln style what’s in train
tracks in all seriousness it was a bit
of a mess mentally because the idea that
came to me originally was to do a voyage
trip of the 1600 miles of the Lincoln
funeral train 2015 is going to be a big
celebratory year of Abraham Lincoln’s
life and accomplishments it’s an
anniversary 150 years from his death the
first thing that came up was a massive
feeling of inadequacy that how do you do
this how do you do this
you can’t find Lincoln you can’t find
the people addressing that way but
you’re trying to feel and find and yet
in essence right a metaphor I think
going to begin to click the first
metaphor for feelings that we had when
we went to Harlem you start reading more
about the funeral train and they
discussed people all over the place all
over the tracks I mean they were talking
about half million people they were
talking about a lot of people and in
Harlem was the closer we got to a train
track full of people and if you look
there’s all kinds of people there
waiting for an Amtrak train going north
it wasn’t of course the funeral tree but
in your head that’s what you you try to
find those metaphors he manifests
himself and the people and their
attitudes Lincoln had that magic of
bringing us together and dividing us
whatever it has so much but on the other
hand trying to force us to think and
come back together and be something
better and special there was a panic
point where we’re getting the facts of
wars theater but I wasn’t getting any
feeling to me I’d went in it and I had
seen other people’s photos first to try
to replicate him and we only
a few minutes then I gave up and I stood
back then I realized they it wasn’t the
whole chair it wasn’t the balcony the
primary element is the back of the chair
I guess that’s how it happened and it
became quite emotional because this is
the moment when it a lot was over it
wasn’t that man was dead but the promise
of what he could have brought was also
over I think the tragedy and where we
miss Lincoln terribly it’s like we miss
Martha thinking terribly is that they
were voices and they got us thinking
they didn’t solve all the problems but
getting us naked
when you’d preparing a story you’d go
for that you got to go up what’s easy
and what’s not easy and what’s easy look
how many Abraham Lincoln High School’s
Awards we called the school and they
said yes we have a football game I kept
trying to photograph them like getting
their gear on i4f this and that it was
very very very dark and then I walked
around the corner and not only did it is
this boy he wasn’t quite questioning me
I don’t know what he was doing but we
had one of those things that happened
once in a while between a photographer
it in a subject where I’m questioning
what he is and he’s questioning what I
am you don’t know what he’s thinking
he was very profoundly there for that
moment it’s again and you’re trying to
find pictures to say something but that
are open-ended so that you know that
it’s not over yet it’s an irrelevant
journey to try to at this stage again to
try to find Lincoln in the physical
there Lincoln that really is important
exists in people’s minds in their
attitudes and in their own battles and
what they think about and the questions
he brought up and confronted us with
still exist
you
questions but the journey became for us
as myself my header I think more of a
interior journey because you couldn’t
manifest Lincoln style what’s in train
tracks in all seriousness it was a bit
of a mess mentally because the idea that
came to me originally was to do a voyage
trip of the 1600 miles of the Lincoln
funeral train 2015 is going to be a big
celebratory year of Abraham Lincoln’s
life and accomplishments it’s an
anniversary 150 years from his death the
first thing that came up was a massive
feeling of inadequacy that how do you do
this how do you do this
you can’t find Lincoln you can’t find
the people addressing that way but
you’re trying to feel and find and yet
in essence right a metaphor I think
going to begin to click the first
metaphor for feelings that we had when
we went to Harlem you start reading more
about the funeral train and they
discussed people all over the place all
over the tracks I mean they were talking
about half million people they were
talking about a lot of people and in
Harlem was the closer we got to a train
track full of people and if you look
there’s all kinds of people there
waiting for an Amtrak train going north
it wasn’t of course the funeral tree but
in your head that’s what you you try to
find those metaphors he manifests
himself and the people and their
attitudes Lincoln had that magic of
bringing us together and dividing us
whatever it has so much but on the other
hand trying to force us to think and
come back together and be something
better and special there was a panic
point where we’re getting the facts of
wars theater but I wasn’t getting any
feeling to me I’d went in it and I had
seen other people’s photos first to try
to replicate him and we only
a few minutes then I gave up and I stood
back then I realized they it wasn’t the
whole chair it wasn’t the balcony the
primary element is the back of the chair
I guess that’s how it happened and it
became quite emotional because this is
the moment when it a lot was over it
wasn’t that man was dead but the promise
of what he could have brought was also
over I think the tragedy and where we
miss Lincoln terribly it’s like we miss
Martha thinking terribly is that they
were voices and they got us thinking
they didn’t solve all the problems but
getting us naked
when you’d preparing a story you’d go
for that you got to go up what’s easy
and what’s not easy and what’s easy look
how many Abraham Lincoln High School’s
Awards we called the school and they
said yes we have a football game I kept
trying to photograph them like getting
their gear on i4f this and that it was
very very very dark and then I walked
around the corner and not only did it is
this boy he wasn’t quite questioning me
I don’t know what he was doing but we
had one of those things that happened
once in a while between a photographer
it in a subject where I’m questioning
what he is and he’s questioning what I
am you don’t know what he’s thinking
he was very profoundly there for that
moment it’s again and you’re trying to
find pictures to say something but that
are open-ended so that you know that
it’s not over yet it’s an irrelevant
journey to try to at this stage again to
try to find Lincoln in the physical
there Lincoln that really is important
exists in people’s minds in their
attitudes and in their own battles and
what they think about and the questions
he brought up and confronted us with
still exist
you
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