Road Trips
Last days of summer. Warm water and spectacular weather always marks the now subtle change from summer to just a twinge of fall air. Wind direction is the big topic here in the outer banks. An offshore breeze and it’s time to surf and an onshore wind kills the shape of the waves and is …
This is the last of my series of three fiction/fantasy pictures I am posting on Instagram Actually it was the first one I ever made. Shot about three years ago on my rooftop in New York as part of a Magnum Nudes portfolio originally sold at a Christies art auction in Paris. It is still …
Masks intrigue all of us. This one from Venice, Italy. Every culture has masks and I have a small collection from various cultures around the world. This photograph continues my non documentary fantasy/fiction series. I am in the “playing” stages of both shooting and choosing. Oftentimes I start a project and then drop it or …
While I have earned my living as a straight documentary photographer, I was influenced as a young boy by fiction writers. Even on documentary shoots for National Geographic I would read fiction to get a real feel for a culture. Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabelle Allende and Carlos Fuentes shaped my psyche for Central and …
Small summer waves are still fun summer waves in the outer banks…The hard core big wave riders are waiting for the fall swells.. In the meantime warm water and no wetsuits appeal.,#obx #northcarolina
Rio de Janeiro. I always tell those I mentor to never stop shooting. When you think things are over or you’ve “got the picture” , keep on going. Squeeze the lemon. Here I had been working with a parkour artist and he’d made about 4 jumps for me and he was pretty much burned out …
Rio de Janeiro. I like getting in the middle of things. Getting in and then “disappearing”. Not becoming totally unnoticed but so much a part of the scene that I’m not at all obtrusive. A glass of wine in my left hand a camera in my right I can go with the conversation flow and …
I’ve now done 4 pictures in a row from Rio/Bahia in Brazil. All a bit different in subject matter. I’ll do 2 more tomorrow.The 6 Brazil pictures do not encompass very much territory. I tend to choose very few places to shoot especially in a broad topic.This picture was published both in National Geographic and …
Rio de Janeiro. As a professional photographer when shooting a broad subject like Rio, I must compartmentalize. Break it down into digestible parts. If I’m shooting for a magazine there are editorial “points” that must be made and at the same time simply capturing the atmosphere of the flow of the street gives a feeling …
In a state of Candomblé trance, women from Bahia, Brazil celebrate Yemanja, goddess of the sea. Africans brought to the “new world” didn’t often fully accept the Catholicism of the Portuguese and Spanish. Nor did the indigenous tribes of the Americas. From Africa they brought their own tribal spiritual practices which survive to this day …
