dealing with vagaries

Over the Atlantic...

2010-03-23T23:25:00.005-04:00

“measures of mercury”

1000
1000
1000
feet above silent
crust
I cruise at altitude,
bathed in the exhalation of others.
while warning whispers
staccato blush our aura.

I want to crawl
through the plexiglass.
I want to stand on the flexing wing
before I dive
through layers of atmosphere.
before I plummet
through layers of sparse molecules
and gaps that can’t be shaken by sound.

I would eventually land in the sea
somewhere between two continents,
irretrievable
and impacted
into my own particular
ether.

and during this night
while a stranger
sleeps touching
my elbow
I’m consumed with eating
my own death.
I want to ingest my own ether
as it drifts back upwards from the sea,
unconstrained by any force
and too finely/finally
purified
to be noticed by gravity.

Right angles and palm trees...

2010-03-17T17:12:00.002-04:00

The geometry of Gulu (Uganda).

Live wires in Lira...

2010-03-10T05:37:00.004-05:00

Lira, Uganda that is - home to a highly-charged dance party.

"the electric slide"

canons
of distant heat lightning
blossom as electric flowers
dangling
over a dance
floor packed
with thirty men to every woman.

as the rain tumbles
down from those ionized petals
I can't imagine each bump
and every grind
is safe from the suspect
wiring of distorted
bass and conductive pools
which tremble to the beat.

Lo-fi = hi-fun...

2010-02-07T16:44:00.005-05:00

iPhone photos.

B+W, cont'd...

2010-01-28T20:37:00.001-05:00

In keeping with the aesthetic of my last post - I thought I'd toss up a portrait I shot last weekend.

Late night interiors...

2009-12-16T19:16:00.002-05:00

Two images I came across tonight in an old folder from my "Travel Anonymous" series. A random hotel room in Australia from an assignment in 2003. I remember I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't remember where I was - just too much time on the road...

AC360 in DRC in PDN...

2009-12-07T17:09:00.004-05:00

Photo District News homepage - an image I shot of Anderson Cooper and virologist Dr. Nathan Wolfe in the Democratic Republic of Congo...

Seasonal seaspray...

2009-11-27T20:43:00.004-05:00

North Carolina's coast, following Thanksgiving turkey. Projectile droplets. Splayed-out swimmers.

A bit on bytes...

2009-11-09T19:46:00.003-05:00

Photo District News article - Diving into Digital.

y = 1/x

2009-11-03T23:12:00.002-05:00

I find the asymptote heartbreaking. Always reaching, never realizing. Infinite / never rest.

Yo playa' - es la playa...

2009-10-16T17:21:00.003-04:00

Barcelona - the darks, the lights...

2009-10-16T17:14:00.003-04:00

Paella and pedestrians...

2009-10-15T16:31:00.001-04:00

Wandering through Barcelona's streets on a shoot for Singapore Airlines.

See you there?

2009-09-14T12:23:00.004-04:00

Very few places are as visually rich as northern Uganda. It's the perfect place to dig in and cut your teeth on a powerful story with the ability to effect change. I'll be there February 28 - March 13, 2010 teaching a photography workshop through the fantastic folks at Momenta Workshops. For more details and to sign-up please check out this link:

Momenta Workshops: Photography as a Force of Change

Some work of mine from Gulu, Uganda and surrounds, March 2005.

High above an unsuspecting herd of elephant...

2009-09-02T20:33:00.003-04:00

Sometimes you wish you never knew the story behind the image...click here to see why...

Yoohoo. Uhaul?

2009-08-06T19:11:00.003-04:00

Back home in D.C. Half of my house has the echo of empty wood-floors. My brother moved up to a new place in NYC this week and we're renting out our house starting Sept. 1st. I'll probably float between NYC and DC for a couple months before I decide where to settle - nice to change things up!

Venerable and vending...

2009-07-27T06:42:00.000-04:00

Japan. And Japan.

Kyoto and surrounds...

2009-07-27T06:34:00.004-04:00

Raindrops on a bullet train window don't stick around too long.

Fish in a barrel...

2009-07-26T10:01:00.003-04:00

Underwater. On land.

Love haunts...

2009-07-24T10:34:00.004-04:00

In the color space that only tungsten and neon in combination can produce.

Check out this tragically beautiful documentary ("The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief") about the host/hostess clubs of Osaka.

Far East foliage...

2009-07-23T21:41:00.003-04:00

Kyoto. Forest.

Today in Osaka...

2009-07-22T07:54:00.003-04:00

It's funny to think the things we photograph actually happen. Discrete slices of time, forever distilled.

My new national past time...

2009-07-22T07:52:00.001-04:00

There's nothing like watching two morbidly obese men in fancy diapers slap each other around. Er, I mean sumo wrestle. The slo-mo replays are not to be missed - it's like you can see every chunk of stew they ever ate, every bowl of noodles they couldn't refuse, rippling across their thighs like mini-tsunamis. I'd take it over baseball everyday of the week and twice on Sunday!

Ads in Asia...

2009-07-19T06:34:00.004-04:00

The wheels hit the tarmac this morning in Singapore after 24 hours from NYC via Frankfurt. My traveling companies were the ever-reliable Ambien, a couple of drinks, baseball cap pulled over the eyes and two deeply lodged earplugs.

Out here shooting television commercials for Singapore Airlines, one in town here, the other in Japan. A la Bill Murray/Lost in Translation - "For relaxing times, make it Suntory time..."

The detailed city...

2009-07-19T06:15:00.007-04:00

I always find images more intriguing without context...sometimes complex images work, other times it's good to go back to the basics.