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More Inhabitants of the Cairo Streets
Continue ReadingI do not know how much these Egyptian guys earn for recycling bags formerly containing cement. They have taken professional care in folding and transporting their used merchandise; however, considering their worn-out sandals, ragged clothing and the ancient bicycle they use for transportation, we can conclude they receive enough money to feed themselves and not […]
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Can A Photograph Represent Sound?
Continue ReadingThe sound I am wondering about is no-sound, the lack of clatter — silence, soft and ubiquitous. Could a photographic image somehow acquire that meaning? At least in my mind this one comes close. On a Las Vegas late afternoon many people shelter in their hotel rooms, having entered a video-trance or maybe gone down […]
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Who Invented The Mud Pie?
Continue ReadingIt is a simple question with a surprisingly elusive answer. Even Google turns up dry holes. No one knows where — neither the when nor the why — of the art of the mud-pie. One of those timeless things, It extends into the past until its origins blur and disappear from our view. Its future […]
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Chagrin — Vol. 2
Continue ReadingThe little fellow on the right is definitely chagrined — feeling disappointment, humiliation and upset. His friend appears to commiserate.
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Young Woman With Mixed Emotions
Continue ReadingShe rides on a float in a parade and waves half-halfheartedly toward people on a crowded sidewalk. She expresses complex emotions. I did not see what prompted this look; the event appeared and disappeared too suddenly. She has observed something she despises. A combination of anger, bitterness and disgust definitely shows up on her face. […]
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Some Other Worlds Of Light
Continue ReadingSeeing a passing storm through a different set of goggles —
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Intersecting World History
Continue ReadingTo those who would bear the hopes and future of the people, let the voice of their guns express the words of freedom. Death to the Fascist Insect that preys upon the life of the people. (Rallying Cry of the Symbionese Liberation Army) “Greetings, my comrade sisters and brothers, all love, power and freedom […]
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Uncommon Imagery in a Turkish Storefront
Continue ReadingI explored every street in downtown Selçuk, Turkey. I also sampled outlying neighborhoods. This wedding photographer’s window-display represents the only public imagery bordering on the erotic I saw in that town; in fact, I saw nothing so blatant during the rest of my trip through the conservative country of Turkey, which included a week’s stay […]
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Breaking the Fast
Continue ReadingThroughout Cairo at sundown during Holy Month, men come out into the streets to eat after a day of abstaining from food, water, cigarettes, even chewing gum and sex of any kind. If all goes perfectly, they will avoid harmful thoughts also during daylight hours. If you go out shopping or just strolling at midday […]
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Chagrin — Captured in the Wild
Continue ReadingCHAGRIN: Disquietude. Distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment or failure. Vexed, frustrated, annoyed, disappointed, expressing displeasure. If life, liberty and all of the future depended on it, I could not recreate on my face this expression of pure chagrin. I recorded the lady at a race track in Middle America. Catching her reaction […]
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