Rowan Stone

• Artist • Photographer • WSU alumni • she/her/they •

[Rowan Stone @rowan_stone]

Fall colors on Lomochrome Purple 35 mm 🍂

[Novelle art. @artistryhere]

october MOOD

[Isabelle Baldwin 🌎🎞 @BelleNoelPhoto]

books every artist should read (a thread):

[Portra Papi @jakob_lr]

Fall in Colorado on 120 film 🎞️

[Kat Abughazaleh @KatAbughazaleh]

Fox News tried to do a bunch of scary man-on-the-street interviews about crime. It didn't go well.

[Joel Meyerowitz @joelmeyerowitz]

I returned to NYC from my house on Cape Cod less than a week after 9/11. The first thing I did when I got home was race downtown to see the fallen towers. Many of you know this story, but when I got there and raised my camera to my eyes, a police officer approached me, whapped me on my arm, and said, "No photos. It's a crime scene." I realized then that we'd have no historical record of this horrific event if pictures weren't allowed. I had studied a few historical archives at the Library of Congress in D.C., and I knew I had to be the one to create an archive of this seminal moment in my city's - our global - history. Over the next 9 months, I returned to Ground Zero, a.k.a, The Pile, daily (with a few travel exceptions), to photograph the wreckage, light, architecture, and the incredible group of people who were there to excavate, clean up, rake for remains, and help in any way possible. It was a community of remarkable people - a brother and sisterhood - of ironworkers, NYPD, FDNY, Captains, Chaplains, security workers, and politicians. I snuck in daily to photograph and got kicked out daily. It wasn't until I quite literally stumbled into a group of men from the Arson and Explosion Squad, who asked what an older guy like me with a big old camera was doing down there, that I found my way in without fear of being evicted. They all quickly believed in the importance of the photographic record I was attempting to make. They gave me their phone numbers and said to call them if I had any trouble, and they'd bring me back to the site. Eventually, I got an official mayoral badge that granted me easier access to the Pile. In the end, I made over 8,500 pictures. My focus was never on human remains. I wanted to capture the place, the light, the people. I owe so much of this experience and access to my band of brothers from the Arson and Explosion Squad. Here is merely a tiny selection of some of the pictures. Many can be seen, however, at the Museum of the City of N.Y., World Trade Center Memorial Museum, Smithsonian Museum of American History, Library of Congress, and about 500 in my book, Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive.

1. A Worker in a Raking Field searching for human remains, 2002

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

High winds at the perfect time of day created a rare Rainbow Waterfall in Yosemite National Park

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Rising sun redbud tree (Cercis canadensis) looks out of focus because of its colour graduation

An effect created by its new growth

[Eliza Elowen @ElizaElowen]

I just got a $0 tip on $250 check. I still have to tip out 6%. I’m paying to serve that table in the Florida heat. Please fix our broken tipping system. I’m begging you.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

From a 1979 IBM presentation

[Portra Papi @jakob_lr]

4 years of road trips to Yosemite 🎞️

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Now it’s time to join the activists who have been leading this work for years and do even more. 

That means volunteering in your community. It means supporting organizations like @PPFA, @USOWomen, and your local abortion fund that are doing great work. And it means voting in every single election — especially local ones where you can have an even bigger impact. 

It’s the best way to turn a setback into far more lasting progress. So let’s keep working.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It’s been a year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Since then, 14 states have banned most abortions, leaving millions of women and girls with nowhere to turn for the care they need.  

And yet, there are reasons to hope. 

After Roe v. Wade was overturned, voters in Michigan, California, and Vermont helped enshrine abortion rights in their state constitutions. And governors in states like Nevada, Hawaii, and Pennsylvania have signed executive orders to protect abortion access.

[Sherry @SchrodingrsBrat]

Hanging out with old friends who haven’t changed is one of the best feelings in the world. They bring out a part of you that you thought you outgrew because “life went on”. As we grow, we keep every age inside of us. Younger versions of yourself never truly disappear,

[emilyswift @eswiftstudios]

GM ✨

[emilyswift @eswiftstudios]

Glass pieces are HUNG!!!!! For the first time I’ll be displaying these pieces at
“ART-TEENTH” happening tomorrow at 211 state street Bridgeport CT 6-9pm! Art, food, drinks, and tons of fun planned for the night. You don’t want to miss this!!!

[Rowan Stone @rowan_stone]

@Ash_Flowers @britprawat @PhillyPolice Please share this and look into this to help bring Shay home!! This needs media attention ASAP!! Please share this information if you can!

[Steve Keeley @KeeleyFox29]

She’s 18. She got accepted to several universities. She picked Morgan State to study mechanical engineering. She vanished last Monday, June 5th. She’s now missed her prom. She missed her Motivation High School graduation Friday. Her name is Shalayla Porter. 1/2

[pop culture gal @allurequinn]

gotta be 23-year old lady gaga shuting down a reporter asking a sexist question… this woman raised me😭😭

[Rowan Stone @rowan_stone]

If I have salad for lunch, can I eat cake for breakfast?