Just like everyone else, sometimes I just want to make pretty pictures. Who cares if they are art or not?
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No matter how many photographs I take I still marvel that I can still be surprised by what light does. I guess that’s why I still take pictures. I like being surprised. Barcelona, December 2011 The end of the year is always a slow time. Hardly anyone emails, hardly anyone responds. I always think I’m going to use this week between Christmas and New Year’s to reflect and get some uninterrupted work done. But I rarely do. Barcelona, December 2011 If you celebrate Christmas I hope you had a good one. If you don’t I hope you had a good day off! Time after time I talk to people, especially photographers who know what their dream is but find excuses for not pursing it. They ask me for solutions. I tell them I have none. Coming up with answers is easier than you think. Coming up with reasons not to follow your heart is even [...] Sometimes we spend so much time looking forward and up we forget to look down… Don’t like to be photographed And others don’t mind at all. Another year cheating death! How do I do it you ask? Well some secrets I’ll never tell. But I will say I had a great birthday surrounded by the people I love. One of the highlights was an incredible cake made in the shape of a Leica M8 by Elizabeth Wolff. Here are some images [...] Door. New Orleans, August 2011 Some people would find it strange that I am not in New York for the tenth anniversary of September 11th. I don’t. I spent seven straight days photographing the attacks and their aftermath. That was enough for me. Lower Manhattan. September 11th, 2001 What I remember most about that [...] View Let’s Get Lost Summer Roadtrip map in a larger map And…. I’m off! Where you ask? On a summer road trip through the American South. Bourbon, BBQ and baseball are the themes that will guide me for the next for weeks as I make my way through Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Georgia and the Carolinas. As [...] Re-education camp. Rwanda 1999 I can’t look back at the archives without looking at the work I did in Rwanda. I was twenty years old when I got my first international assignment thanks to my best friend Jimmie Briggs. More than ten years ago I went to Rwanda and came back a changed man, one [...] Recruit Parker April 2006 Sometimes downtime can be really productive. In 2006 I didn’t have any money to continue working on The Europeans so I was in New York when I got asked to go down toe South Carolina on a press trip the Marines had organized to their training camp at Parris Island. I [...] Mosque, Makassar Indonesia 2003 I was twenty-one when I got a one way ticket and moved to Indonesia. It was one of the most interesting, and challenging times of my life. And I would not trade it for anything. Demonstration. Jakarta 2002.
I know I tend to post images that I have recently taken but part of the idea behind this blog was to show some of what I have done in the past as well. So this week I will be looking through the archives and sharing some of my favorite work. Cuba, December 2011 I usually [...] Bathroom Wall, Barcelona July 2011 You know I love mixed messages in my photographs but sometimes someone else does all the work for you… |
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