photographic essays
somehow i have been spending my whole life trying to put together my "portfolio"….it is almost a joke really because i still do not really have one…if someone asks to see my portfolio now, i just send them a book, but for 20 years or so i honestly did not have a real "portfolio"…just never …
energy….wow…wow…so much energy…..anyone who meets ann will feel this blast of energy in a split second…and you had better hang on, because this woman is moving at the speed of light….and, in my opinion, for the purest reasons of better communication….. for those of you in europe, south america, asia and africa you may not …
i am such a romantic it is really sickening actually….full moons kill me……i am looking at a half-moon out my window right now and that is not bad either…cliche romantic that i am, i like the wine and candlelight mood for "communicating" to someone with whom i am interested…jack johnson playing and my lights turned …
last night i sat in the audience and listened to a master….a man i have respected my entire photographic life….humbling…..the man does not stop……and for most of his work he never really left home…. bruce davidson’s lecture was concurrent with his exhibition "Time of Change" at the Aperture Foundation …bruce gave an "old fashioned" slide …
"ruck" was always in the back…."uptown" was always in the front…i met both men at the same time in the bronx river project in the south bronx, but uptown usually did most of the talking…he is more the showman, ruck the perfect sidekick… but on june 14, it is ruck who will be on center …
flying can be kind of a pain sometimes, but i get in a "zen" kind of mood when i travel and so the whole process is relatively painless for me…besides, i look at the upside…i try to do things when i travel that i cannot possibly do any other time….like expense accounting…..like making my "to …
rushing out the door for a quick trip to boston..no blogging for 24 hours….i will be presenting my work via a 15 minute slide show for a media buyers event…i am there to represent National Geographic…yes,a freelance job and an easy one for me to do….i have no problem describing the virtues of the Geographic …
no, no…the above "home alone" is not the title of my upcoming piece on work and relationships….sounds like it could be though doesn’t it?? ….no, i am not ready to write that piece just yet…another day….some good comments are still coming in…some truly poetic thoughts…..i will wait…or is that called stalling??? no, my home alone …
never in a million years would i have ever thought that i would view new york as “home”….and , even now, i see new york as a temporary stop along the way to wherever i decide to finally “settle down”…..but today, new york looks and feels and seems like “home”….. i have been here less …
nobody has a worse sounding alarm clock than me…..i use my cell phone (brand not to be mentioned) and this thing sounds like a chicken being choked or something like that…but, at 5am tomorrow morning i will wonder once again why in the world i don’t find something better to wake me up in the …
