Hard at Work
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Hard at Work

I ponder the concept of retirement. When I was younger I thought it would never happen. Or at least in the conventional way. I assumed at one point my assignment work would simply go away. Then all that would be left is my work, my projects. But often my projects have grown out of my assignments. That client work takes…
November 7, 2017Posted inarchitecture, Seattle
Barcelona
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Barcelona

It was late summer of 2012. My mother was dying, Carter was facing open heart surgery and the great recession lingered on. The future was very uncertain. We would sit on the deck or veranda, as I called it, late in the afternoon, early evening. We would watch the planes over head, flying off to exotic places. We knew certain…
August 16, 2017Posted inBarcelona, Portraits, Travels
But it Doesn’t Look Like a Photograph…
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But it Doesn’t Look Like a Photograph…

I have read that the problem with contemporary photography is that we are still concerned with modernism. Still view the photographic image as a facsimile of reality. More or less. To deviate invites both scorn and praise, depending on the level of fame of the artist. If the gods of the art curatorial world smile upon you, then you can…
July 28, 2017Posted inarchitecture, Landscapes, Odds and Ends, Seattle, Uncategorized
Silver Prints Are Durable Things
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Silver Prints Are Durable Things

A gallery dealer I worked with many years ago recently contacted me to say she had all this stuff of mine she wished to return. We haven’t worked together is almost 15 years. What could she have? But she came by my studio, which she had never seen, and brought this wealth of my history of working with her for…
July 12, 2017Posted inCelebrations, Odds and Ends, Paris, Spain, Travels, Washington DC