During the course of creating this website, I’ve had occasion to post photos in a series titled “People @ Work.”

The concept of this photo series is that my photos are the opposite of the generic pictures posted in most business websites and pamphlets. More specifically, instead of photos of models posing and pretending to be working, my photos are of real people, doing real work and they have real a connection to me.

These photos date back to the early 1900s in Chicago, and are images of my relatives at their places of work. For example, my earliest photo dates back to circa 1903-09 and is a picture of my great-great grandfather in front of his butcher shop on Maxwell Street on Chicago’s near west side. Other photos include my dad and me at work.

Now, through Flickr’s photo badge, you can view an ever-changing collage of these photos and click on the images to view a larger image along with an explanation of what you’re looking at, and what the photo means to me.

As always with my website, feel free to comment or critique.