Patricia sings as her husband Ed plays in a nightly ritual in their home in Detroit. Photo by David Alan Harvey Conversation with Patrica Lay-Dorsey Author of Falling Into Place: Self Portraits Detroit-based artist Patricia Lay-Dorsey was diagnosed with chronic progressive Multiple Sclerosis in 1988. Twenty years later she turned her camera on …
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[slidepress gallery=’patricialaydorsey_fallingintoplace’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Patricia Lay-Dorsey Falling Into Place play this essay Self portraits are strange animals. For most photographers being at the wrong end of the lens is not our first choice. Besides wasn’t it Narcissus who was so mesmerized by …
The Best Fall of my Life by Patricia Lay-Dorsey Much of the time living with a disability is a big fat bother. But there are moments touched with magic. Like the early evening I was out taking self portraits for the photographic essay workshop David Alan Harvey and Jim Nachtwey were co-teaching during the …
now , this feels strange… why?? i just cannot tell you…for one thing i felt more than a little bit of sentiment as i closed down “road trips” and our old blog platform…i mean, we all hung out there for almost two years and she served us well…we all made new friends , got a …
nobody loves books more than Gigi Giannuzzi….he loves them so much that he publishes instinctively and without any thought of "commercial appeal"…he does not do "readership tests"….he goes by his gut and then scrambles like a madman to try to sell enough of his little masterpieces to be able to go on to the next…. …
I feel this morning just a wee twinge of fall in the air here in the Outer Banks of NC. Oh yes it is still summer, but I can feel and smell what’s coming. I won’t think winter yet of course but the change of seasons always makes one think things over a bit. Reflect. …
W.M. Hunt – Bill Hunt – is a self described champion of photography: collector, curator and consultant, who lives and works in New York City. His book “The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious” was published last fall by Aperture in the US, Thames & Hudson in the UK, and as “L’Oeil Invisible” by Actes Sud in France. “The Unseen …
[slidepress gallery=’michellefrankfurter_destino’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Michelle Frankfurter Destino play this essay Drawn to the frontier edginess and melancholy of the region, I began photographing along the U.S. – Mexico border in 2000, shortly after reading Cormac McCarthy’s, The Crossing. The novel begins with a boy finding …
[kml_flashembed fversion=”8.0.0″ movie=”https://www.burnmagazine.org/ss_essays/ericamcdonald-thedarklightofthisnothing/soundslider.swf?size=2&format=xml” targetclass=”flashmovie” bgcolor=”#262626″ publishmethod=”dynamic” width=”800″ height=”668″] [/kml_flashembed] THIS ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Erica McDonald – The Dark Light of this Nothing Janet: Hi Erica..(kiss) EM: Hi, Where’s Adele? Janet: Adele’s inside..Erica, this is my family, that’s uh..Donny, my sister in law, Sharon, Angie…David and that’s my brother John.. EM: You’ve got a …
[slidepress gallery=’davidplummer-maisondelachance’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls David Plummer Maison De La Chance play this essay In the village churchyard there grows an old yew, Every spring it blossoms anew: Old passports can’t do that, my dear, old passports can’t do that. The consul banged the table and said, …
