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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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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Stumbled upon this scene waiting for a city bus. Minneapolis, MN. November 2025.

PS, anyone know what painting this is?

#Minneapolis #Photography
A storefront window with two panes of glass along a sidewalk. The right pane has a for lease sign. The right pane features a classical or baroque painting of a woman running with a hand outstretched while a woman crawls next to her. A pair of sneakers sits on the sidewalk below the painting.
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Kansas City. October 2025.

#photography #streetphotography #urbanlandscapes #kansascity
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Very late #Evening at Sandringham Estate...

#photography #bnwphotography #bnw #blackandwhite #blancoynegro #monochrome #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBlueSky #PhotographersUnited #Scape #BlueSkyArtShow
November 8, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Experimenting on real unreal materials, seeking for some truth [XV].
#art
#polaroid
#mixedmedia
#filmphotography
Diptych of polaroids. Boats and a walking human.
November 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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I was admiring how the late afternoon sun was glinting off this orange lettering and wouldn't you know it--this guy in orange glasses walked by. I asked for a photograph.

Omaha, NE. September 2025.

#Omaha #OmahaStreets #Photography #BelieveInFilm
A man stands against a textured wall facing the low evening sun. He is wearing large yellow glasses, a white shirt, and black pants. There large orange lettering is on his left. The edge of the building and a street is visible on the far right of the frame.
November 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Omaha, NE. November 2025.

#Omaha #OmahaStreets #Photography
The back of three signs along a parking lot are illuminated in the light from the setting sun. The skyline of a downtown mostly comprised of old brick buildings is visible in the background. One prominent six-story building is illuminated by the sun as well. Above, a dark blue sky is partly clouded.
November 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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A wonderful read on creativity, ego, seeing, and how expressing yourself changes over time. I love Arnold's description of how photographing and editing engage two different parts of the brain and how those can interact with each other to create better work.

#Photography
Daniel Arnold’s New Pleasure? Missing the Shot.
The street photographer speaks about New York City folklore, stepping away from Instagram, and his shifting priorities as an artist.
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November 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Omaha, NE. September 2025.

#Omaha #Photography #BelieveInFilm
A row of large power lines stretch into the distance over prairie land. The power line in the foreground cuts a path through trees.
October 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Pyro Joe's

Kansas City, KS. October 2025.

#KansasCity #Photography #BelieveInFilm
Front of a two-story brick building with heavily weathered white paint. "Pyro Joe's Fireworks" is written on the building in hand-painted letters.
October 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Springsteen's Nebraska is the reissue that didn't need to happen. There are a few curiosities but it mostly made me want to put on the OG record again. It makes the project less interesting: Part of the allure is the stripped-down tape recording. Adding the alt versions erases the mystique.
October 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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In memory of Janet Lee North.

I don't know who Janet Lee North was. I stumbled upon this beautiful cross with her name under a railroad bridge. An internet search yields a few brief paragraphs about her death in 2023. No obituary. I'm sure she was a lot more.

Omaha, NE. September 2025.

#Omaha
A wooden cross with the words "Janet Lee North" inscribed sits under a railroad bridge. Grass in front of the lens partially obstructs the view of the cross.
October 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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"the photographs, moments and memories we cant get back no matter what, this hurt the most."
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We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.

“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.

(Published Dec. 2024)
“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...
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October 25, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Kansas City, MO. October 2025.

#KansasCity #NewTopographics #Photography #BelieveInFilm
A beige-colored grain elevator-like building towers over a metal warehouse building and tractor trailers. Black skid marks from tires curve on the pavement in the foreground toward the elevator.
October 25, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Kansas City, MO. October 2025.

#KansasCity #Photography #BelieveInFilm
A woman walks around the base of a cylindrical marble column. Cut off words on the column appear to read "The World War Country." The skyline of Kansas City is visible in the distance in front of the woman.
October 24, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Salute to the staff playing Sisters of Mercy's "Lucretia My Reflection" on repeat at the 78th street Goodwill in Omaha
October 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Three guys I met walking that wanted a photo

Omaha, NE. September 2025.

#Omaha #OmahaStreets #Photography #BelieveInFilm
Three men pose for the camera in front of a highway overpass. Each makes different signs with their hands.
October 23, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Some images from a small series of prints on gampi paper over gold leaf. #printmaking
A square photo of eight matted photographic prints on gampi paper over gold leaf. The images all include (mostly) bare trees and branches.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Omaha, NE. October 2025.

#Omaha #OmahaStreets #Photography #NewTopographics
"You a Hoe!!!" written in graffiti on the yellow boarded up window to single-story building. A line of power lines above an empty lot fills the right part of the frame.
October 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Omaha, NE. October 2025.

#Omaha #OmahaStreets #Photography #NewTopographics
A closed single story building featuring mid-century architecture faces an empty lot and street lights. "Freedom" is written in capitalized letters on the side of the building.
October 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Kansas City, MO. October 2025.

#KansasCity #Photography #NewTopographics
Four workers in orange on a raised platform above the entrance to a bank, viewed through the frame of the orange brick walls of an alley.
October 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Found today under the Lewis and Clark Viaduct in Kansas City. Tempted to try to find it back tomorrow and then frame it.

#KansasCity
Crude drawing of women stick figures among black, yellow, and red scribbles on a weathered piece of cardboard.
October 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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OVERSHOOT #7 WITH AYDA GRAGOSSIAN
By Yogan MullerOctober 11, 2025 lenscratch.com/2025/10/over...
Overshoot #7 with Ayda Gragossian - LENSCRATCH
Ayda Gragossian and I naturally bonded over our photographic explorations of Los Angeles. In North North South, her new book with GOST, I was struck by the extraordinary coexistence of stillness and t...
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October 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Headed to Kansas City to do some urban landscape photography. Got any favorite spots?

#KansasCity #Photography
Two Nikon SLRs and a Hasselblad camera next to a Kavu bag on a wood floor.
October 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Working on the spreads for a new zine. The wildest diptychs sometimes just come out of seemingly nowhere.

Los Angeles area, 2015.

#LosAngeles #Photography
An elderly man looks down at the camera while walking down a ritzy avennue of designer stores. He is wearing large red glasses and a red sweater that reads "MCM." Graffiti of a cartoon bunny with sharp teeth, red eyes and a bloody knife next to several Disney-themed castle pinatas along a dirty weathered wall.
October 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM