Joseph Vavak 12/27/25 Joseph Vavak 12/27/25

A strange year comes to an end

I likely do not need to explain to you, the reader, that 2025 has been a very strange and unsettling year here in America. It was a year where the news seemed to get progressively worse as each day passed. The indignation and sadness of yesterday seem mild compared to the same emotions today (which will likely continue to escalate in the coming year). Our problems are not solved by the turning of a calendar page, unfortunately.

And so another year comes to an end with photographs from a late December day spent on the road not too far from home - northwest Missouri this time around.

Joseph Vavak 10/10/25 Joseph Vavak 10/10/25

One last day on the North Shore

Photographs from the only day the sun shined on my late Spring trip to Duluth and the North Shore…

Joseph Vavak 8/11/25 Joseph Vavak 8/11/25

Wisconsin and a smidge of the U.P.

Photographs from a (mostly) rainy day spent exploring the far northern edge of Wisconsin and the very western corner of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, including a stop in Ashland to visit the site of one of my favorite Stephen Shore photographs…