Category Archives: Street Photography

Hallow-we’re-back

Happiness and excitement sizzled alongside the hum of neon lights on Fremont Street Experience this year, as ghouls and goblins awoke from their pandemic slumber to come out and play. What in years past was usually a crowded throng of drunken debauchery with several sober souls dodging the madness, was now a fluid celebration wearing one common mask: a smile. Locals, vacationers, workers, buskers and entertainers buzzed along the .8th of a mile street under a canopy of innocent fun. Fremont Street was alive this Halloween, and nothing, even COVID, could stop it. 

Ronda Churchill is a freelance photojournalist based in Las Vegas and available worldwide. You can follow her on Instagram: (at)rondachurchill

Empty

The desolate downtown and Arts District are photographed on Day 10 of a statewide quarantine for COVID-19 in Las Vegas. The notorious Fremont Street Experience is closed off to pedestrian traffic and security guards stand by. Local artists have painted plywood that boards small businesses’ window fronts. Southern Nevada hunkers down for what I only fear is the beginning of the new normal.

Ronda Churchill is a freelance photojournalist available for hire worldwide. You can follow her on Instagram @rondachurchill

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Fertility/Neplodnost

I have been silently struggling with infertility for the past 3.5 years. This sentence is hard to write.

Making images is easy. It keeps my world right.

The following frames were shot within several days of traveling and hiking in Croatia in January. The cost of hiking a bucket-list national park is minute compared to the colossal cost of treatment.

These images reflect my feelings with my fertility struggle.

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Free admission

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Free Admission

A decayed water park
thirsty in the searing California desert,
is quenched by spray paint

Applied color,
of lines and shapes conveying
love, hate, pain, politics,
reside on the sun fun skeletal remains
a slide with no slide
a pool with no pool

“Freckle face”
“I’m a nurse; I do crystal meth”
“Leon loves Heather”
It’s a community poem,
the common thread: expression
I take my piece too
for my little blog post

The smell of spray paint hangs in the air
I am alone in this charged space
later frightened by an artist then two lovers
we find ourselves on this ride

Lake Delores Waterpark that once was wet
now flows with an artsy, niche vibe
where lovers and haters gather
to leave behind a permanent mark
on an impermanent, changing space

 

Lake Delores Waterpark, with slogan, “The fun spot in the desert!” closed its doors permanently in the late 1980s. Ronda Churchill is a freelance photojournalist available for hire worldwide. http://www.rondachurchill.com
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