Range 220
Range 220 is a place where one can lose it’s self in a practice of combat. A place that resembles nothing completely real nor fictional.
A stage manufactured by the US Government to help train our military. Composed with more than 1500 buildings, a mosque, cemeteries with no context, burned down cars, middle eastern posters and banners on sides of buildings and market stalls with plastic fruits. All of these decorations are attempts to illustrate a broken down middle eastern town and really only leaving a complete impression of falsehood. But this place is far more than bad visual fundamentals. This place is not a real place with any true consequences for your actions. This is merely a massive playground for our military. An ongoing opera with small plays sprinkled over this playing field. Observed from cameras placed all across this stage so the rehearsal is shaped and rehearsed over and over again for that next insurgent in the middle east. The US was one of the first to create urban warfare ficities to train the military for effective combat and now many countries have fallen suit with the help of the United States for their own specific military efforts and future concerns.
Range 220 because it crosses a line of deception. I’m focused on exploring those complexities on what is real and what seems like a fantasy world. This place takes itself very seriously but I don’t see it that way.
California chronicles
"California Chronicles" represents a visual journey through my experiences photographing different and diverse groups of people from all over the state. These people and places are times I would spend revisiting, time over again. Drawn usually to a person's story or the dynamic culture in the community. Being a fly on a wall or more involved by asking to take a portrait. Each one of these photos is a special moment I want to share.
These portraits tell multifaceted tales. From the banks of the American River in the Sacramento area to the Sikh community in Fremont and Union City to the intriguing world of bloodless bullfighting in Thornton, California, and many moments simply caught as I would walk around with my medium format Mamiya RZ67 camera.
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California chronicles
"California Chronicles" represents a visual journey through my experiences photographing different and diverse groups of people from all over the state. These people and places are times I would spend revisiting, time over again. Drawn usually to a person's story or the dynamic culture in the community. Being a fly on a wall or more involved by asking to take a portrait. Each one of these photos is a special moment I want to share.
These portraits tell multifaceted tales. From the banks of the American River in the Sacramento area to the Sikh community in Fremont and Union City to the intriguing world of bloodless bullfighting in Thornton, California, and many moments simply caught as I would walk around with my medium format Mamiya RZ67 camera.
*images copyright - Noel Spirandelli
