Title: Girl on Bike, Washington, D.C. (2006)
SRO #040, #041
Author: Smooth Ray
Size: 3x2”
Date: 2021 (image taken 2006)
Medium: Photography, watercolor staining, mounted on 140-pound cold pressed paper
Note: It seems like a lifetime ago, but there was a time when Smooth Ray made his living as a freelance photojournalist for newspapers and wire services.
Smooth Ray photographed disasters, small town festivals, national political events, sports at all levels, religious ceremonies, people who seemed to have everything, and those who seemed to have lost it all.
The image here is an example of Smooth Ray’s documentary work in Washington, D.C.
With support from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts, Smooth Ray spent almost a year documenting changing life in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood.
The result was The Mount Pleasant Project.
SRO #041 was donated to a free art project hosted by Higher Self in Portland, Oregon. SRO #040 was left in a random location in Trumansburg, NY.
