Just a heads up about 600 Sq Mi: Photos from Houston, a show put on by Houstonist in conjunction with Houston area photographers and M2 Gallery:
Dates: September 5 – October 7, 2007
Opening Reception: 7-10 PM, September 8, 2007
Location: M2 Gallery, 325 W. 19th Street, Houston – Heights
Come and join us. My photo, Beyond Borders (8×12), taken at the 1940 Air Terminal Museum at William P. Hobby Airport, will be part of the exhibition and will be available for purchase.
A while back I wrote on flickr my inspiration for this photo:
Just a little tidbit about the place I call home…
Often overlooked as a world-class city, Houston is one of the most culturally-diverse cities in the United States with a demographic in which everyone is part of a
population-based minority (37.9% Anglo, 37.8% Hispanic, 17.8% African-American, 6.6% Asian/Other from recent Rice University Survey). While relations are far from perfect, our city has been used as a model by other major metropolitan areas in their planning for demographic diversity and tolerance.Houston has always been an underdog. We didn’t have a hit TV show bearing our name in the 1980s. We don’t have mountains. We don’t have Disney. We don’t have
Frank Sinatra singing songs lauding our existance. We do, however, have a sense of community…and a reasonably tolerant one at that. Just one of the many reasons, I call Houston home.