Convenience

On February 5, 2020 by Dan Ryan With 0 Comments - California, Food-related, Japan-related, People, Scholars & Rogues, South San Francisco, Teaching Days

I’ve shopped in a lot of 7-11s in my life.

Maybe you have too.

I only started photographing people I’d encounter at 7-11 a few years ago. I was a public school substitute teacher in 2016 and 2017, and I used to stop by whatever store was on my way to work for a Dr Pepper and some kind of donut for breakfast.

I’m not a school teacher any longer, but I still treasure my 7-11 adventures. See more of the people I met at the convenience store here. I hope you enjoy them.

(Photographed in South San Francisco, California in September and November, 2016 and in May, 2017. See my other work here and here.)

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The man who laughed t‘ai-chi

On April 6, 2017 by Dan Ryan With 0 Comments - California, People, South San Francisco, Teaching Days

On my way to work this past Monday, I drove past an older man doing t‘ai-chi exercise by the side of a particularly busy street in South San Francisco. I broke several traffic laws turning my car around so that I could pull up to the curb in front of him to take a photograph. Luckily, I got to him just in time to capture this exuberant expression.

I’ve looked for the old man each subsequent m

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