Hi everyone, here’s Simona Ghizzoni @simona.ghizzoni taking over burn diary for the next days. I’m now in Kenya, working on an assignment about women alliances who fight against female genital mutilations. I will try to keep a diary of these days, while I’m traveling through Kenya and Ethiopia. I’m thrilled to share with you this …
Hurricane Joaquin rolls towards New York with winds of 130 mph and rated as a Cat 3. Great. My book publishing class starts tomorrow so it’s gonna turn into a hurricane party I can tell. Teju Cole, Rob Clark and Michael Christopher Brown will be showing my students work along with BurnBooks producer Diego Orlando. …
After a big couple of weeks I thought I would take it easy tonight but I’ve been invited by someone to make some more pictures. These opportunities only come around once so I’m heading back out. I hope you all have a good weekend, keep well, Ben McGee (@mcgeesees) signing off from São Paulo.
Valparaiso, Chile. From my book Divided Soul (Phaidon). This is a one shot only candid photo. Yet I had spent a couple of days with this one family so after a bit I pretty much blended in. I was having my coffee on the center patio and this young girl was about to leave for …
Last night I spent a couple of hours photographing the mostly young kids that sell chocolates and popcorn on the streets. I woke up early, selected and edited a few pictures and took them down to the printer before going to university. I’ve picked the pictures up and am on my way to deliver copies …
Trabalhador/Worker. Today is the last day of my Burn Diary, I appreciate all of you have followed along here and over at my personal profile, the stories will continue there. Thanks so much to @diegorlando, @davidalanharvey and the rest of the Burn team. I have really enjoyed the process of being pushed to create regularly, …
“Nobody knows what I do for a living, if they did, everything would change”Ben McGee (@mcgeesees) posting from São Paulo.
On Thursday morning a street near our place closes for a small market, much like other suburbs on different days of the week. People mostly sell fruit and vegetables but in this part of the market during lunchtime it will be packed with people eating pastel, a popular deep fried pastry. Ben McGee (@mcgeesees) posting …
