Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus Photography
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Extend the flame. Show up.
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YOU DO NOT KNOW WHO HE IS
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CHILDREN’S PLASTIC TOY CAMERAS
I have been shooting film with a child’s plastic toy camera. I have to get away from all the This Is What People Want rhetoric. The perfect photograph does not exist. Perfect photographs do not possess a story. Often, the photograph is the story. I get on my dirt bike…
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WE WERE PRACTICING SCENERIOS AROUND GETTING OUT OF DODGE
The grit that goes inside your mouth like eating flies and gnats and sand and dust. Cat’s Breath is the name of a stripper who lives outside of Vegas in a trailer park. You have never met anyone quite like Agnes. She has other performing names. Cat’s Breath is just…
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TIM BARRUS, NEW YORK TIMES
I am a communist. In a world that condemns mostly accurate thumping of male chests, that communism was wrong. It was wrong. It cannot be turned around anymore. It’s for losers. I am a loser. Whose disappointment that anything can change, is the solid ground of If Only. If only…
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Sail On Till You’re Gone
Another stake to claim your planet on the ground.
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The Variant Can Kill You Fast
Last summer, I kept asking people at the NIH what the plan was for the covid variant, Bubba. What variant. There had to be a variant. And that variant could only survive to reproduce if we let our guard down too early. That puts us right smack dab where we…
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Why Are You Here
these colors not too unlike a mountain lion stretched out hot with yellow eyes upon a rock where the sun spills in