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Gail & Hannah On Their Special Day
Continue ReadingEarlier in life I frequented parades, where I photographed bystanders and participants alike. Berea, Kentucky celebrates each September a food delicacy — Spoon Bread — with processions, demonstrations, foot-races and dancing. The bread is a gooey cornmeal concoction bordering on pudding; it is sweet, containing fresh cream and eggs in copious amounts. Thousands of the […]
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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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A View Into A Smaller World
Continue ReadingGolden fractals, autumn multi-colors and soft liquid effects — leave nothing more to desire.
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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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Modeling Patriotism
Continue ReadingEach tribe or nation-state shows off its pride and determination. Many parade their army, navy, air forces. I made this photograph at an early-18th century frontier encampment along the Ohio River near Paducah, Kentucky. There is a twist here: these armed militia men express their patriotism for a nation not yet in existence — it […]
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Learning From Joseph Conrad
Continue Reading“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art must carry its justification in every line. And art itself may be defined as the single-minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect. It is an […]
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