This collection of photographs represents a common event around the world. Clothes being cleaned. In our modern world cleaning clothes involves people, machines, steam power, and lots of organization. It is a system in the truest sense of the word.



I tried to bring as little equipment as possible to the shoot. I brought a tripod to get some long exposures, but found myself being the tripod instead. I would stand , breathe softly and imagine stillness.



I didn't want to bother anyone during the shoot. I wanted to be ignored. I wanted to be the proverbial fly on the wall, the observer.



Machines, Steam, People, Heat,Clothes, Hangers, Work. This is what I observed.