Mexico

8 days. Lots of street photography in lovely faded Valladolid. Swimming in a cenote. Climbing the steps at Ek Balam. Paradisaical Papaya Playa Project at Tulum. Cheap delicious food in Cancun…

Friday afternoon

I went to the park two blocks away, over by the projects. There's a brand-new track and field, and there's a paved yard with an exercise area: a few benches for situps, a couple of chin-up bars, and such. It's all made with industrial-strength iron and imperturbable wood painted a dark institutional green. It's like a prison yard, and on a gray day like this, it felt like one too. But the view above as I did situps was pretty…   

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We went to Rashaad Newsome's King of Arms Art Ball

And it was brilliant. We were the guests of Corliss Olu and Amani Olu, who was also a judge. I could not stop taking photos and video. Constant and sustained fabulousness…

Corliss and Amani sharing the spotlight.

Photo © Kristina Feliciano. All rights reserved.

Photo © Kristina Feliciano. All rights reserved.

Amani watching the action. Photo © Kristina Feliciano. All rights reserved.

Photo © Kristina Feliciano. All rights reserved.

Photo © Kristina Feliciano. All rights reserved.

Photo © Kristina Feliciano. All rights reserved.

Photo © Kristina Feliciano. All rights reserved.

Photo © Kristina Feliciano. All rights reserved.

Photo © Kristina Feliciano. All rights reserved.

Photo © Kristina Feliciano. All rights reserved.

Photo © Kristina Feliciano. All rights reserved.

Photo © Kristina Feliciano. All rights reserved.

Photo © Kristina Feliciano. All rights reserved.

Photo © Kristina Feliciano. All rights reserved.

Photo © Kristina Feliciano. All rights reserved.

Photo © Kristina Feliciano. All rights reserved.

From left: J, Corliss, and me. We stood on our seats the whole night to get the best view. Photo © Kristina Feliciano. All rights reserved.

Julius' to Macao Trading Co. to Odeon

First, we went to Julius' to meet our pals. (Pals not pictured.)

Photo © Kristina Feliciano.

Then we took a cab to Tribeca…

We went to the launch party at beautiful Macao Trading Co. for the redesigned Aperture magazine…

Photo © Kristina Feliciano.

Photo © Kristina Feliciano.

And from Macao, we walked to Odeon…

Photo © Kristina Feliciano.

Photo © Kristina Feliciano.

Julia. Photo © Kristina Feliciano.

And then we were there, in Odeon, another favorite place…

Julia. Photo © Kristina Feliciano.

Julia and water pitcher. Photo © Kristina Feliciano.

I went downstairs and took a serious self-portrait. Nothing out of the ordinary…

Self-portrait downstairs at Odeon. Photo © Kristina Feliciano.

Another downstairs picture. Photo © Kristina Feliciano.

Double exposure, somewhere around 1996

I was somewhere around 26 years of age when this photo was taken on, I think, East 13th Street, by my friend Chris Howland. Chris Howland who was my first friend when I moved here in April 1993 and who in 1999 chose to bring his life to an end. He was in his 40s, which would seem too soon to stop, but it's not for me to say. What I will and can say is that I am sorry his brother found him, had to see and feel that. So Chris took this picture at my request, because I was doing a story for PDN about some software that you could upload a photo and change it any way you wanted, and I wanted to show how I could transform myself from this blank face to a character I saw in Geena Davis' The Long Kiss Goodnight. And Chris took a series of photos with my camera, with a police station as the backdrop because it was near our pool hall, and then we went and shot pool.