A walk outside for clarity. Recent photographs, 11102025

To get away from the woes of the world, by the show of hands 👋🏾 who would like to see beautiful photographs by me?

I thought about a story I read or heard about two Black people standing on a long line at an airport, I believed they were friends. (I'm paraphrasing) While standing on line, white people kept squeezing in between the two of them to get to the other side of the airport.

I brought a ficus plant for my friend's mother, it was so nice to look at it. I had to buy one for myself.

I would dream about getting rid of all the things that would stop a person from getting their basic needs met.

Trump's administration is trying to take away five loaves of bread and two fish.

Speaking of street safety. We should have crossing guards working outside polling stations on election day. The amount of foot traffic and car traffic on election day is high.

I don't see McGreevey as a mayor who supports street safety.

Congratulations to @eleanalittle.bsky.social 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Good job, New Jersey.

It's all about democracy and receiving a sticker.

✅ Election Day! Polls are open till 8:00 pm tonight in Jersey City, as we choose a governor, state Assembly members, county sheriff, mayor, city council, and school board members. When cyclists vote, cyclists win! #IBikeIVote

"In 2024, the city recorded 251 fatalities and 51,555 injuries." The city needs drastic change now. -Sigh-

Map of Jersey City food distribution sites, with eligibility details and hours of distributions. Many sites only operate several times per week! Plan in advance! All locations on this map have been confirmed *online* in November 2025. www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...

People are good.

A haunted house but it’s just the country you live in trying to kill you.

Hank Willis Thomas at Jack Shainman Gallery NYC.

I am still vibrating from last night’s Alchemy Lecture. The video is available for 2 weeks. Please join us in this chorus. Sound—at the Interregnum. Glen Coulthard Madeleine Thien Canisia Lubrin Immanuel Wilkins Whew. What they did!!! m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...

Grand St and Pacific Ave.

"The library is not meant to be an on-demand service provider... It’s meant to be an accessible portal to our government, our collective holdings, the place we go to access shared information, knowledge, wisdom, and to contribute our own resources to that pool, to make meaning with others"

This is a cool project that NYPL is offering: Teen Photography Kits - www.nypl.org/education/te...

When will it end??

Alice Walker said, “When it is all too much, when the news is so bad meditation itself feels useless, and a single life feels too small a stone to offer… Find those people who are committed to changing our scary reality… People gathering, people working to change the intolerable.”

Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks With the Clear Voice of a Free Man

Stay strong in the struggle.

Praying for Jamaica.

Enforce jaywalking. 🙃

Melissa has intensified into a category 4 hurricane and could develop further to become a category 5 as it approaches Jamaica.

"the photographs, moments and memories we cant get back no matter what, this hurt the most."

Catalog launch! Great photography! Free books! Tomorrow! Watch all about it! www.29news.com/2025/10/24/v...

Naroditsky was one of my favorite chess players. 💔

FYI, early voting for New Jersey general elections starts Saturday, October 25, 2025 – Sunday, November 2, 2025.

Meanwhile... 🌬️ 🎣

An essential read. Can we make this go viral?

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An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

I heard someone say, "Imagine if Basquiat didn't die so young." I feel the same way about Prodigy from Mobb Deep.

Heartbreaking 💔

Jamel Shabazz started following me on Instagram. I'm about to faint LOL

Jersey City has more mayoral candidates than Wu-Tang members.

I want a cargo bike so I can ride around town in summer with bengal cats, fishing gear, and my shirt off.

The absence of a national opposition party in the face of what is now clearly a coup d’état — the takeover of the federal government and security apparatus by a fascist clique who are breaking every law in sight and boasting about it — is WILD to me.

LEVITATE. Jersey City, 2021. Photograph by Duquann Sweeney

In a small gesture of love. I gave the victim's mother the portrait of her beloved son. ♥️

"Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties."

Always amazing these lectures.

"Cool, 'Cause I don't get upset I kick a hole in the speaker, pull the plug, then I jet" Eric B & Rakim

I photographed the young man who was fatally shot Sunday morning in Jersey City. I put his portrait in my first solo exhibition.

Also tangentially why we shouldn’t license bikes or criminalize perceived bike offenses—one of the last unsurveilled means of transportation (other than walking)