resources….energy….waste….depleted….renewable….. am i speaking of the environment?? yes, i am…the environment for creativity….and just like the environment on our fragile planet, the "environment for creativity" is always in fragile balance or imbalance….it can never be taken for granted….and it does not come without a price….it must be garnered , cared for, protected, and otherwise cherished …
night before last, i locked myself out of my apartment…i had to leave in the middle of a friend’s birthday party and take a taxi over to marie’s house….she has keys to my place… you may know marie as my friend/manager/confidante (see story on marie under "workshops")….marie had to get out of bed in her …
a little detective work has made me realize the "after party" at my loft on thursday june 14th following my "Living Proof" show could get out of hand…i have to cut down on the number of people in my space….so i have created a new password to eliminate the feint of heart…no password, no party…..and …
i suppose if you walk down the street and you see your name lit up on a theater marquee the experience could be a little "heady"….gene richards, left, and bill allard both wanted me to take this snapshot of them in front of the Paramount theater in charlottesville…i thought it was pretty cool myself….just fun….i …
there is an old old song performed by tammy wynette, "Stand by Your Man" which was the theme song for an old old movie "Five Easy Pieces" starring jack nicholson…..both the song and the movie are classics….the two women i photographed here are classics as well…. and both are unusually special women who have "stood …
the best of intentions….yes, i definitely had the best of intentions…and that was to keep all of you "plugged in" to the "Festival of the Photograph" down here in virginia…..basically, i disappeared from all traces of my "normal life" for the last three days… i do now have enough material to write several good stories…..the …
the drive from new york to charlottesville, virginia is about 7 hours…..but it is like going from one planet to another…..we went from gridlock traffic in the morning to a peaceful campfire in the woods by evening..i will be “reporting” all this week from michael “nick” nichols “”Festival of the Photograph” which has transformed charlottesville …
this warm summer evening found me walking alone in the chelsea district of manhatten…earlier,i had arrived at the Steven Kasher Gallery for the opening of "New York Genius" a show curated by lou reed..he has chosen photographs of his favorite musicians, actors, painters, dancers and writers…. i was not a new york genius by the …
we just got this exhibit hung yesterday….honestly, this was not really so difficult to hang because we literally tacked the 44" x 32" pigment inkjet prints to the wall…no frames…raw like the subject…loose….experts hung five of my pictures, 8 feet x 6 feet prints, by wires from the ceiling… as each print went up, i …
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 …
