TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY K.B. DIXON
I don’t like crowds. I avoid them as much as I can, and when I can’t—as when I am working on a photographic project—I try to limit the amount of time I spend in them. So it has come as something of a surprise to find that now, after living for nine months without crowds, I have started to miss them—sort of. “Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone?”
The photographs here are a look back at the not all-too-distant past, when we congregated with impunity. Each image has been contextually enhanced by a pandemical subtext. When will we ever be doing something like this again? We are all waiting for an answer to that question—some more patiently than others.
BASTILLE DAY, 2012
2 PARTIES NO VOICE, 2011
STREET FAIR, 2019
ART IN THE PEARL, 2019
TUBA FESTIVAL, 2019
DOG SHOW, 2018
MERMAIDS, 2019
SATURDAY MARKET, 2018
SCIENCE MATTERS, 2019
PRIDE, 2019
BEARD COMPETITION, 2013
FARMER’S MARKET, 2017
TAX THE RICH, 2017
UFO FESTIVAL, 2017
K.B. Dixon’s work has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, and journals. His most recent collection of stories, Artifacts: Irregular Stories (Small, Medium, and Large), was published in Summer 2022. The recipient of an OAC Individual Artist Fellowship Award, he is the winner of both the Next Generation Indie Book Award and the Eric Hoffer Book Award. He is the author of seven novels: The Sum of His Syndromes, Andrew (A to Z), A Painter’s Life, The Ingram Interview, The Photo Album, Novel Ideas, and Notes as well as the essay collection Too True, Essays on Photography, and the short story collection, My Desk and I. Examples of his photographic work may be found in private collections, juried exhibitions, online galleries, and at K.B. Dixon Images.