dealing with vagaries

Live wires in Lira...

2010-03-10T05:37:00.002-05:00

Lira, Uganda that is - home to 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.

Lightly lit light...

2009-05-03T18:04:00.005-04:00

I love light in all its iterations. I'll take a dense urban environment in the late afternoon over just about any other scenario. If you keep your eyes open, you can wander into spots that look like they were custom lit for you on a movie set. But in reality, they're just the perfect confluence of reflected and refracted rays.

NYC. April 2009.

Up against a Wall, Street scene...

2009-04-29T16:29:00.005-04:00

Recent work on the economy from NYC:

There’s a palpable shift in the mood of the financial districts of New York City. The hotshots of a booming economy are now the pariahs of a recession. Wall Street's mood has plummeted like the price of shares that power the economic engine.

The offices of financial powerhouses crowd together downtown. Their density occludes the sun, which barely touches the ground on the dark streets. Power ties and gelled hair take smoke breaks in the shade of the marble facades, and movement on the floor of the stock exchange slows to a crawl, a far cry from the freneticism of a couple years ago.

Even in Midtown, where late afternoon light hits the avenues, shadows cling heavily to the etched walls of towering skyscrapers, where a nebulous collection of well-dressed men decide the fate of the world’s economy.