Take & Talk Pics

Today’s featured guest is Tom Phelan.   Tom is an artist using his photography to document the changing Midwestern landscape. Although he does this in a way like I have never seen before. His subjects include dilapidated barns, rusted out cars, and a variety of objects accosted with rural life. Shot In The Dark   I like to explore.  Since just about everything in the Midwest has already been "discovered," my journeys of exploration, such as they are, tend to have as their aim the rediscovery of things either forgotten or existing in relative obscurity.  Whether old cars or farm buildings, I am fascinated with objects that have essentially outlived their usefulness, but whose presence says something about the society that generated them, as well as the individuals who once used them.  In this sense, my photographs comprise a record of some of the places and objects I have encountered during the course of the past several years.  I find greatest satisfaction in the discovery of objects that might well be placed