And he photographed relentlessly, seemingly looking for the soul of the places in the quotidian moments. I mean, a hotel room in Pakistan was two bucks,” he said.
I went to places like South America, the Western part of the United States, and eventually Asia that were cheap. “I never was interested in money, and thank God I’m OK now, but I would work at photography studios, develop film for friends, do carpentry to get enough money to finance a trip. The rest of his professional life has evolved mostly organically, though later on grants and commissions have helped pay the rent, and quality outlets like the Christian Science Monitor bought his work. Grazda went, abandoned plans to be an industrial design director, studied photography instead, graduated without a career track, and essentially began walking down the road with his camera.
His interest in photography did, and his father’s colleague had gone to this place called Rhode Island School of Design, to which not a lot of Queens guys went at the time. Jimmy Breslin Country - received a Catholic education that didn’t teach him about the world. His affect and 20th century weaponry lead us to imagine a 15th century British archer in the same pose, with his high-tech longbow.Īt this point, a sentient being would ask, “Who is this Grazda guy?” Ed Grazda grew up in Bayside, Queens - a.k.a. The man is looking at the camera unemotionally, holding a loaded rocket launcher with a quiver of rockets on his back. The photo that symbolizes the never-ending history of war for me shows a fighter on the street in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1992. Unlike Lady Liberty and the Eiffel Tower, the bridge has been bombed and rebombed, and rebuilt each time. The bridge was designed by Gustave Eiffel (Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower) during the French colonial period in Vietnam, spanning the late 19th and mid-20th centuries. Embassy vehicle, repurposed as a taxicab.Ī few pages later, a young Asian American slumped on the side door of a rail freight car with Hanoi’s Long Bien Bridge in the background. In the photo notes, Grazda explains the car is a 1968 Ford Falcon, once a U.S. The first seemed innocuous, slightly humorous, showing the interior of an automobile with a fur-lined dashboard and the cultural equivalent, perhaps, of fuzzy dice. Two powerful images of the continuum of war and chaos and survival caught my eye.
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