The Globe
2005 - 2010

“The Globe is a place to watch football (soccer). When there are no matches being played, it looks like one of many neighborhood watering holes where people meet, eat, drink, laugh, shed tears, talk sports, dance, and drink some more. And maybe then the name of the pub or being a world city like Chicago wouldn’t even matter.

But during a match, The Globe becomes just what the name says: the churning, whirling center of the universe where supporters from Munich and Milan, Glasgow and Guadalajara, Seattle and St. Petersburg, Barcelona and Birmingham, Norwich and New York, Capetown and Chicago–and, of course Liverpool and Manchester–cheer, cry, chant, and curse, then pray that stoppage time will be enough for a miracle.” (from The Globe book’s forward)

Collected here are artifacts, drawings, and photographs made in and around a football (soccer) pub in the North Center neighborhood of Chicago. In 2010, a photobook with essays by Jamie Michael Bradley, Sandra Kaminska Costello, Aaron Patrick Flanagan, John Goodwin and Jamie Hale was published by Dark Lark Press. This effort coincided with the 2010 FIFA World Cup and took part in the photobook exhibition “Les Rencontres D’Arles”, organized by the LUMA Foundation in the Parc des Ateliers, Arles, France.