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Hands & Fingers In Anticipation
Continue ReadingThe picture is an emanation from what seems the deep past: the year 2006. I made this image at Keeneland Racecourse outside Lexington, Kentucky. Walking toward that track across a park lush with grass and trees, about to enter an institution esteemed among lovers of thoroughbred horses, you sense you have stepped upon consecrated ground, […]
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Human Hands VI — A Modern Mona Lisa
Continue Reading“Paying attention directly to objects and people in our world comprises maybe half our waking consciousness; the remainder of the day and night we spend in dreams, visions, and essentially comatose states of being.” From the Notebooks of C.R. Howerton The right hand of our foreground subject (the round-faced lady with curly hair) […]
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Human Hands III — The Ferry Driver
Continue ReadingOur subject pilots a passenger ferry many times daily across the Nile in Upper Egypt. I am standing with camera and longish lens on a raised platform making up the second-tier of his boat. Later on the observation deck — seated alone — I wonder about the gesture and open look bestowed on me by […]
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Is She Portraying An Insane Vision?
Continue ReadingOur subject pulls her face taut against her skull. Her ice-blue eyes bulge under stiffly-arched brows. She locks her stare on the infinite distance where no information exists in a pale sky. This must be private vision and not a reaction to the external world. Whether she is experiencing herself in a purely fictional story […]
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Environmental Self-Portraiture, 1970s Style
Continue ReadingI pushed from Las Vegas to Santa Fe, New Mexico stopping once to spread blankets on the ground and nap under vivid constellations; eating nuts, jerky and raw vegetables, drinking flawless spring water I drove a foreign car which steered like a tractor, rolling with barely space for a suitcase, ice chest and spare tire. […]
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An Emblematic Young Man
Continue ReadingEastern man — young, robust — lit by sulfur flames. In darkness among orange celebrations, He seems universal. Hittite King, Druid King, Ancient god with aplomb in loyal garments, A statue among loose companions. When he dies he leaves for home — Land of emblematic forms. (Photographed in Anatolia after a football match near […]
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Woman Having A Politely Bitter Conversation
Continue ReadingSome lack skill — or the energy — or simply do not bother to conceal what they feel. I am not sure which operates most strongly in our photograph. Our portrait subject converses with a taller woman of a different race, whose face and demeanor are hidden from us. Our lady has dressed joyfully in […]
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The Turkish Restaurateurs
Continue ReadingI admire Adem’s nose. It makes a straight vigorous statement. I met him in Selçuk, a town on the Turquoise Coast. A few days prior to posing for this portrait, he opened his first business — this restaurant where he now stands. Next to him on a warm grill in cast iron pans he has […]
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Iconic Musician, Interpreted
Continue ReadingI watched this man work up-close live onstage through many potent hours. He performed shirtless, barefoot and dread-locked, played mixed drums with the power of three people. Above I peeled back his public face and surface appearance, folding time and history aside, an attempt to reveal the iconic musician and archetype beneath. A more conventional […]
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