Color in Alaska…
If you look back on many of my posts, you’ll see a lot of black and white. I love black and white images. There’s the usual immediacy about them with…
Swipe: the Cap-Haitian market…
I’m unsure, really, going into places like the Cap-Haitian market, if it is fair to call it “the Cap-Haitian market” or is it just “Cap-Haitian” in general. The market sprawls…
Editing the background…
So, I learned early on in photography that backgrounds are a significant part of the photograph. It is basic Photo 101 stuff to talk about “mergers” and distracting backgrounds. Now,…
Natural beauty…
This is a Leica fanboy post. Normal readers: avert your eyes. I was really sorry to burst my own bubble. It rather ruined the mystique of the idea that I…
Captured happy…
Real emotion caught in a photograph is a special thing. It is a often-fleeting moment frozen forever. Intensity, anger, peace, happiness… And the importance of a photo, I think, is…
The brief seconds of Madrid…
Sometimes, I will make a photo that, if I only took one that entire day – sometimes entire week! – I would be content. For some reason, something technically, aesthetically,…
A fingerprint in Fes…
Who are these people? Who grows up here in this movie set? Who goes to school all their young lives walking these streets? Who sees this every day, the common…
A photographic ode to an epic bus ride…
I cannot, with images, do justice to this part of the trip. The road to Agra, India, should have been a fairly manageable 4 or 5 hour drive from Delhi.…
My job cannot be…
My friends, I’m not trying to be conceited or proud… but, I promise you, the job of a long-form documentary photojournalist does not suck. I mean, there are places in…
…and ya get to meet people!
Just about every career and every job comes with the line “…and you get to meet and interact with interesting people!” Now, “interesting” is an extremely relative term: you’ll, by…