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sbphoto
@sbiessel.com
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Photographer, wanderer, and house cat manager in Omaha, NE, USA. I'm interested in documenting human-altered landscapes, land use, urban sprawl, or whatever I find on walks. he/his

Works at https://sbiessel.com/
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Vicinity Energy plant.

Kansas City, MO. December 2025.

#Photography #KansasCity #NewTopographics
Three short trees cast in shadow stand in front of an old brick power plant bathed in the orange light of the setting sun.
February 18, 2026 at 3:12 AM
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Found words series

Wasilla, AK. April 2014.

#Photography #FoundWords #Wasilla
The side of an abandoned home that is falling apart reads, "I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up and all that. It was on a Sunday, I remember. My Sister was only a very tiny child then, and She was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean."
February 14, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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I used to spend time in Cornwall for work at electricity substations - I always made time for photography.
The Holga, some HP5, a red filter and darkroom time MADE this photograph - it wasn’t taken, captured or shot 😉 and it had nothing to do with what we call a bunch of crows.
#believeinfilm 😂
February 14, 2026 at 9:12 AM
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Wagon train

St. Joseph, MO. January 2026.

#Photography #StJoseph #NewTopographics
A view across a street in a downtown shows the side of two buildings. On the left, there is a blank cement wall. At right, there's a large mural of people on a wagon train.
February 8, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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Found words series

Kansas City, KS. October 2025.

#Photography #KansasCity #FoundWords #NewTopographics
Green text spray painted on a highway bridge concrete guard rail reads, "Flirt. Gather hats. Have fun!" A forest-lined river, railroad bridge, and city buildings lie in the distance beyond the text.
February 7, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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Found words series

Ripped pages from what appears to be a book of daily Bible readings (?)

Omaha, NE. November 2025.

#Photography #Omaha #FoundWords
Ripped fragments of yellowed pages from a book lay in the snow.
February 1, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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From the archives. Los Angeles, CA. 2017.

#Photography #StreetPhotography #LosAngeles
A man in a suit walks out of a store carrying a plastic bag. He's in shadow except for a splash of light that illuminates his face, white undershirt, and red tie. He is wearing glasses and is looking down toward the street. A glass soda bottle with a red label sits in a payphone booth. A sign to its upper left reads, "Collect Calls Dial #11." A metal-enclosed telephone wire curves to its left. The bottle and lettering is bathed in light.
January 31, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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#BlueskyArtShow #NewYear Winds from the north bringing snow in North East Scotland.
January 3, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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Found words series

Council Bluffs, IA. November 2025.

#Photography
A concrete support of a highway overpass meets the ground in the center of the image. The concrete support is partially bathed in light. Red grafitti on the concrete support reads, "We let in a felon before a woman. Fuck Trump." Smaller black writing around the grafitti reads, "Your body my choice," "Faggot," and Cope +Seethe." Two trees are visible in sunlight on the right. A shadowy figure partially bathed in light walks beneath the overpass on the left.
January 31, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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bud's die(sel)

📍van horn, tx
🎞️kodak portra 160
January 28, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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Adventure Park USA.

Outside New Market, MD. 2026.
The illuminated exterior of a casket factory at night. In the background is a roller-coaster and light trails from a passing truck.
January 23, 2026 at 4:54 AM
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Here are some trains I saw in the snow
January 25, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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what's left of a baptist church outside alto, tx

🎞️kodak portra 400
January 23, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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Civic Square development in downtown Omaha, NE

I keep hoping this project delays enough that we move into a more interesting era of architectural design.

January 2026.

#Omaha #NewTopographics
The rear end of a trailer is parked on a large lot that's under construction. Buildings in downtown Omaha rise to the left and behind. The side of the trailer contains a rendering of shiny new buildings and parking.
January 22, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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Omaha, NE. January 2026.

#Omaha #OmahaStreets #Photography #NewTopographics
A bright yellow taco truck sits on the side of the road, bathed in light the setting sun. A red restaurant sign stands above it. To the left of the truck, shadows of the photographer and power lines stretch toward the top left of the image and a building with red trim.
January 19, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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Memorials

Omaha, NE. September 2025.

#Photography #Omaha #NewTopographics
A white religious cross with plastic flowers at its base sits below concrete "T"s of a highway overpass. A small tree grows under the overpass on the right.
January 18, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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Snowstories 17/365
Greenwich Village
January 18, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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smile

Kansas City, MO. January 2026.

#Photography #KansasCity #FlyoverTrash
A crumpled shirt showing part of a woman's smiling face lies on pavement.
January 17, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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I'm pretty sure it's now a cliche to point swanky medium format Portra 400 at this kind of shit, but whatever. Most of those shots are of east or west coast couches. Representation for flyover trash taken on premium film

Omaha, NE. Fall 2025.

#Omaha #Photography #BelieveinFilm #FlyoverTrash
A discarded old brown easy chair sits in some shrubs and small trees along a road. The edge of an apartment building rises above the trees in the right side of the image.
January 15, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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i started a lil postcard club recently, and each month i send a postcard with a new photo. sign up by tomorrow to get this month's secret pic 🤠 www.postal.photos/kat-swansey
January 14, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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St. Paul, Minnesota, May 2023
Color photograph looking across a broad empty parking lot at night, everything around is nearly black, and a lone streetlight at the end of the light shines a deep orange light over the asphalt, illuminating the tops of a few trees by the base of the pole so they almost look like wings
January 13, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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Arrow

Kansas City, MO. January 2026.

#Photography #KansasCity #NewTopographics #UrbanLandscapes
Train cars sit idle on tracks behind a row of leafless trees. Part of a road is visible in the foreground in front of the trees. An arrow on the road mirrors the bent trunk of a tree behind.
January 9, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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In the shadow of the Cold Storage Lofts

Kansas City, MO. January 2026.

#Photography #KansasCity #NewTopographics
A billboard sign facing the camera towers over a raised highway onramp and city streets. Only the legs of the billboard are visible, the top is cut off by the top of the image frame. A parking lot lined with hedges, leafless trees, and a vacant lot with a large brick warehouse building in the distance.
January 7, 2026 at 3:21 AM
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Kansas City, MO. December 2025.

#Photography #NewTopographics #KansasCity
Three concrete blocks sit in front of trees and an concrete wall. A face is drawn on the closest block to the camera. Two smoke stacks from a factory or power plant are visible in the distance behind the trees. Trees in the foreground mirror the stacks.
January 6, 2026 at 4:24 AM