The Published Archive

Stories worth staying with.

Reported stories, conversations, portraits and chapters from my own becoming—work that has reached the page, the screen or the public record.

Stephon Dingle laughing with children gathered around him at Loveman Village in Birmingham, Alabama

Between the live shots and finished stories, the archive keeps what the broadcast could not: the people, trust and joy that gathered around the work.
Loveman Village · Birmingham, Alabama · December 6, 2017

Stories by Stephon™

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Every story enters through a different door.

Start with the person, place or question that pulls at you. As the archive grows, the newest published work will rise here first; everything else will remain within reach through the way you choose to enter.

Portraits · Conversations · Profiles

People

The lives I am trusted to enter—and what becomes visible when we stay long enough to listen.

Culture · History · Meaning

Moments

The cultural shifts, public events and private realizations that ask us to pay closer attention.

Baltimore · New York · Becoming

My Story

The living archive of a kid from Baltimore learning how far his story can travel without losing home.

Perspective · Commentary · Context

Reframes

Familiar stories turned until another truth, choice or possibility comes into view.

Inheritance · Influence · Gratitude

Those Who Shaped Me

Personal letters and cultural portraits of the people whose lives became part of my own.

In progress · From the field

Field Notes

Questions, fragments and dispatches from stories while they are still becoming.