Controlled Skid
Everybody loves a mystery. The Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko once wrote: "Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little, barefoot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!" But one is never quite enough.
The purpose of this photoblog is to look at the world from a slightly askance perspective, to view the commonplace and the beautiful through the criminally distorted lens of a writer of mystery and detective fiction. The photographs are, I hope, attractive; the text accompanying the photographs often isn't. People who read and write in this genre are accustomed to treating the macabre with nonchalance...or even a perverse sort of glee. It's all in good fun.
The photographs are cropped to a 16:9 cinematic aspect ratio (the standard used by high definition television). Unless otherwise noted, all images and text appearing on www.controlledskid.com are my own. As noted below, the text and images are copy protected by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivation License.
More of my photographs can be found on flickr.
Who Am I?
My name is Greg Fallis. I have one of those checkered pasts you hear so much about. I've been a medic in the military, a counselor in the psychiatric/security unit of a prison for women, a private detective specializing in criminal defense, and a teacher (I've taught criminology and sociology courses at American University and Fordham University). Now I'm a writer and photographer.
I've published four books (one novel and three works of nonfiction) and several short stories, a number of which have been anthologized. For the most part my writing revolves around crime and criminality. I'm the editor of Utata.org, an online community of photographers and writers. I also teach the introductory and advanced courses in mystery writing online for the Gotham Writers' Workshop.
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking. -- Brooks Anderson
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Credits
This photo blog is made from a css and HTML template designed by Catherine Jamieson, is run on the Movable Type content management system and uses flickr for photo storage.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.