Marquette photographer Bugsy Sailor talks about how documenting the daily sunrise (he's at 1,000 and counting) helped him get through the pandemic. Then, a conversation with poet Jonah Mixon-Webster about the inherent contradictions in how Black Americans are expected to conduct themselves.
For almost three years, Bugsy Sailor, a Marquette photographer, has been waking up to capture every single sunrise. Stateside talked to him about how this daily ritual helped give his life a rhythm throughout the pandemic.
U.P. photographer about to mark second straight year of photographing every sunrise
Updated Dec 20, 2020;
Posted Dec 20, 2020
A Lake Superior sunrise photographed by Marquette photographer Bugsy Sailor. Sailor is on the cusp of being able to say that he captured every sunrise for two straight years.
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But for more than 700 consecutive mornings, Bugsy Sailor hasn’t missed a single one.
The Marquette-based photographer’s original plan wasn’t to photograph that many sunrises. His original plan, in fact, was just to photograph one year of them: 365 in a row, as part of a 2019 New Year’s resolution-turned-art-project he called “Year of the Sunrise.”