My dear friend Renata Tavares from Rio has just arrived in New York, her first visit. She seems to like it so far.
I will start posting my own work/life on Road Trips over in the right hand column. I am here no more. Just click there if you dare…
Antoine D’Agata…Motel 6…Bismarck N Dakota
Our road trip across America officially starts on October 1…We are trying to decide now whether we go from east to west or west to east…It doesn’t really matter. Nor does it really matter if we even make it across. All the way is a loose goal but not a requirement. The only “must” …
michelle….
I am bringing back Road Trips, my original online blog, for this audience. This picture of Michelle Madden Smith (iPhone Instagram direct to here ) kicks off our testing for this new page which will mostly in the next few weeks concentrate on our upcoming , Off For A Family Drive, across the U.S. trip. …
Mette Frandsen – Sin City
Mette Frandsen Sin City ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Mickey I meet Mickey at a traffic light two blocks from the center of Las Vegas. He’s carrying a heavy suitcase and the brutal and inhuman desert sun is making him sweat. He takes a break in the shadow. I ask him about the suitcase. – I …
dangerous current…
OUTER BANKS, NORTH CAROLINA …. SEPTEMBER 2012 We are now in the process of building a separate page for the Family Drive project. We take off driving around Oct 1 for an online version of the process, but of course I am shooting all the time on it. This body of work has been …
Ira Block – 9/11: Faces of Hope
Ira Block Faces of Hope Thousands of survivors have walked the difficult path of recovery since the September 11, 2001 bombings of the World Trade Center. And although I began documenting this horrific event shortly after the attacks, focusing on the people who emerged from the burning twin towers alive proved to be not only …
Liberty sunrise..
From my archives. I managed to get permission to get my helicopter in close to the statue for a story I was doing on National Parks special edition for NatGeo. A spectacular morning as I recall. On 9/11 I was in New York having breakfast with photographer Ira Block. See his essay on the survivors …
OFF FOR A FAMILY DRIVE…
Too bad I just can’t sit still. Nobody likes more than do I to relax and party and play games and just enjoy life. No matter where I am in the world, images of my cats sitting on the front porch will pop in my head while I am walking down the Champs-Élysées. I have on …
Alejandro Olivares – Living Periferia
Alejandro Olivares Living Periferia ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT How many times can a person face death in their lives? Sense it. Feel it. Smell it. Maybe once? Twice? Four times? The people captured in “Living Periferia” live with it every day of their lives. The violence, the drugs, the weapons, the lost bullets, which take …
Maki Maki – Welcome 2 My Room
Maki Maki Welcome 2 My Room ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Internet is reachable by millions of people each second. They can communicate with each other, and sometimes very private things are told and shown on internet blogs through photos, videos, writings. Although initially it was not intentioned, this is what I experienced with this series …