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Tom Stoye

'Referring to the artist; better to suffer this way than the other.' -Charles Bukowski

About Me


I am a photographer from Detroit, Michigan, looking to network with other creative people interested in photography, and the arts. I specialize in social documentary photography. I'm specifically interested in photographing urban youth culture, and documenting Detroit's post industrial age landscape.

My Interests

Family, Photography, Art, Baseball, Movies, Muscle Cars, Graffiti, Books, Post Industrial Decay.

I'd like to meet:

Creative types with a prolific passion for what it is that they do. Photographers, writers, painters, artists etc... Inspire me!!!

Music:

Thelonious Monk, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, A Tribe Called Quest, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, De La Soul, James Brown, Elvis, Sublime, Joni Mitchell, The Beatles,

Movies:

No Country For Old Men, Rushmore, Badlands, Do the Right Thing, Once Upon a Time In the West, Le Samourai, Lets Get Lost, Pickpocket, A Bad Day at Black Rock, The Third Man, Style Wars, Dog Town and Z-boys .........

Television:

The Detroit Tigers on the tube. If the Tigers aren't playing, I'll settle for any team who can beat up on the Yankees!

Books:

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers), The Naked and the Dead (Norman Mailer), Ham On Rye (Charles Bukowski), Trailer Park (Russell Banks), Portnoy's Complaint (Phillip Roth), A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole), Complete Baseball Record Book, Three Nights in August (Tony LaRussa), The Last Night on Earth Poems (Charles Bukowski), Lies My Teacher Told Me (James Loewen), Blackboy (Richard Wright).

Heroes:

Anyone with balls (metaphorically speaking). Robert Frank, Bruce Davidson, William Klein, Diane Arbus, Annie Leibovitz The Detroit Tigers, Edward Curtis, Branch Rickey, Ty Cobb, Burt Monroe, Geranimo, Georgia O'Keefe, Shepard Fairey, Banksy, R. Crumb, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Picasso, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jimmy Carter, Tom Hayden, Margaret Bourke White, Alec Soth, Frank Gehry, Bill Rauhauser .

My Blog

PICS: Graffiti Writers

The folowing photographs were taken from 2003 up until the present. They are part of a graffiti documentary I'm working on, that I would eventually like to publish as a book.> ...
Posted by Tom Stoye on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:54:00 PST

PICS; L.A. Graffiti Writers

The following blog contains pictures taken of Los Angeles graffiti writer MANDOE, from the M.A.K. crew. Known for his non-stop tagging battles with the BLUE CREW (B.C.); Mandoe also took part in the e...
Posted by Tom Stoye on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 04:59:00 PST

PICS:Breakers

Break photos were taken in and around Detroit over the last four years, of Detroits best and most gifted breakers. Special thanks to Stringz, Jay Bay, Midwest, Dennis, and the DHDC. ...
Posted by Tom Stoye on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:28:00 PST

PICS: People

People I've met along the way....
Posted by Tom Stoye on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:08:00 PST

PICS: Demolition Derby

The following photographs were taken at the Chelsea Community Fair, in Chelsea Michigan. Since the fairs inception, the feature event of the fair has been the demolition derby. Thousands of people co...
Posted by Tom Stoye on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:34:00 PST

PICS; L.A GRAFFITI

These flicks were taken in and around Los Angeles on my most recent visit........
Posted by Tom Stoye on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:29:00 PST

PICS: Detroit Graffiti

Flics taken in and around Detroit...
Posted by Tom Stoye on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 09:07:00 PST

PICS: Detroit's Pictorial Graffiti

This blog contains my flics of the various walls in Detroit, focusing on writers interpratations of faces and character paintings, as opposed to writers that tend to paint their names. Some writers ra...
Posted by Tom Stoye on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:00:00 PST

PICS: Car Culture

Pictures on this blog were taken on Woodward Avenue in the Motor City. Woodward Avenue is the first paved highway in the United States. Along with Los Angeles, it is considered the birthplace of crui...
Posted by Tom Stoye on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:36:00 PST

PICS: Picture Picture

With the advent of the digital camera, and the popularity of the cell phone camera, it seems like everyone has a camera nowadays. There's hardly a day that goes by, that I don't see somebody taking a...
Posted by Tom Stoye on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:11:00 PST