Early in last week’s heat wave, I set out to make some heat photos in Collinsville, Illinois. I found a man, and older man named Tom Odom, who was working in the direct sun trimming grass around the bottom of…
Last week I stopped to photograph Ronald Gardner, 60, of St. Louis sweeping grass cuttings from in front of the home of Alice Bryant a childhood friend. Gardner had cut the grass the day before, but the temperatures had been…
On Tuesday photo editor Lynden Steele and I were tossing around ideas for different ways to illustrate the heat. I scanned the newspaper and saw that the Humane Society had issued a heat warning for pets, and we decided to…
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