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Faraway In Reflection
Continue ReadingWhat draws me to a subject and composition like this must be the mystery expressed. Long-suffering wives or husbands will admit they perceive in odd moments a chasm between themselves and their spouse — something remains elusive, the more so for a person we have never met. I do not know this young man […]
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Born With Charisma
Continue ReadingUnlike my habitual portrait subjects — most of whom are strangers or brief acquaintances — I know a lot about this fellow. In fact I helped raise him up from a tiny critter with a tadpole look and a cone-shaped head. I caught him as he slithered out from his mother’s body, and looked […]
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Man Focused On Winning
Continue ReadingI made this portrait of a rider mounted on a thoroughbred horse in muted sunlight a few minutes before a race. The image reflects his determination to win. His lips are grimly set, head upturned toward future victory, overall projecting strength and confidence. Nevertheless his face shows some diluting of that expression. I perceive […]
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My Favorite Re-Enactor
Continue ReadingThere was something special about Katie. She was impersonating an 18th century woman on the Ohio frontier. I fastened on her emerald green eyes, whose pupils were surrounded by yellow/orange coronas —- irregular in shape like solar flares. In our brief encounter her range of facial expression astonished me. She could switch from beautiful […]
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A Woman With Attitude
Continue ReadingThe lady has edge and attitude — in a warmhearted and humorous way. Blended emotions appear on her face, making her expression hard to unravel; without knowing the prior situation and the conversation preceding our photograph, we can only guess. A feeling of disbelief or feigned shock? Whatever happened it seems she knew it […]
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Our Neighborhood Sharpener of Blades
Continue ReadingNot every place in the world has been gutted, renovated, expressed algorithmically, and made palatable to affluent tastes. Cairo, Egypt is such a zone where you may still see unassimilated humans. This man goes through neighborhoods singing a colloquial song: “I make a knife sharp. I make a knife sharp.” As with other street […]
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Another Inscrutable Gaze
Continue ReadingIt is hard to photograph policemen. They patrol our streets in states of hyper-alertness, and immediately notice a camera — or any other human attention — aimed in their direction. They give hard looks and will use their eyes like sharp blades to dissuade you. I managed this candid portrait of a Kentucky motorcycle […]
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Is This the Best Salesman in the World?
Continue ReadingThe image portrays Savash, a charismatic Turkish man— master of several languages — instantly a friend to every person he meets. I do not know his job title at the hotel. In other contexts he would be called a rainmaker, a troubleshooting outside man, leading clients toward the restaurant or pushing the lodgings, helping […]
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