I haven’t taken photos of Mickey for a few months, but I ran into him a few days ago and we struck up a new arrangement – photos for coffee money. Mickey is a quiet, gentle man, he travels up and down Main Street just about every day all year. He is a contemplative, he loves to smoke and drink coffee, sometimes he sits smoking on one of the benches in town, sometimes he just stands in the parking lot of one of the convenience stores. Mickey is the half-brother of George Forss, our friend and one of the world’s most famous urban landscape photographers.

Mickey lives above George’s art gallery and apartment, he is save and well cared by George and many other people in our town. I look forward to photographing him this summer and perhaps all year.