About Shield / Sonja Shield  

I'm fascinated by urban wastelands, neighborhoods, and people-watching.

A random assortment of things I like to shoot: americana, abandoned urban areas, fellow freaks & queers, time made flesh, mid-century america meets the present, barber shops, bodegas, flags, religious iconography, personal shrines, hand lettered signs, handball courts, things that are invisible, repetition and dissonance, form, structure, lines and color, formalism, cotton candy light, graffiti, decay, peeling paint, twisted metal, piers, the hidden, the liminal space where civilization meets wilderness, the unpredictable and unexpected, things that are not where they belong, stories, reflections, distortions, more. I'm always looking for buddies to bike and shoot with.

Buy a tee. Or contact me for straight up prints: sonjashield [at] gmail.

I (used to) blog, although not really anymore: Brooklyn Ramblings