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The Last Time I Saw Donna
My very dear friend Donna passed away last week, quite suddenly and quite unexpectedly. I had just seen her the week before at my opening at SAM. And now she was gone. She was a dear, sweet woman, so very elegant and full of grace and style. Over 30 years ago, as an artist's rep, she took me on as…
Divert to Paris
I tend to save ticket stubs and other bits of ephemera, like boarding passes. Not collect them really, but rather stuff them into pockets of whatever coat or jacket I may have been wearing at the time and leave them there. Last week I was wearing my black linen jacket on a photo shoot and when I went to put…
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Who Says You Can’t Go Back
Three years ago I spent an afternoon with students from AC Davis High School in Yakima, Washington. It was a good day, with great kids and we made a lot of great photographs together. I returned last week, to work with a new group of aspiring college bound students. And the school too had been renovated as well. There was…
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4 Dead in Ohio
In the fall of 1981 I went to graduate school at Ohio University to study towards an MFA in photography. Since I considered myself as a newbie to photography, having studied and practiced graphic design in a former life, I was looking forward to filling the gaps of my photographic knowledge and perhaps become a more proficient practitioner of the…
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Twilight Musings
I stepped out from the opening at the Sisko Gallery recently and observed a beautiful late winter twilight evening. And a big glowing orb in the sky. It was an interesting urban scene that I wanted to capture somehow. I have never been the kind of photographer to carry my camera with me everywhere I go, so all I had…
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Because Sometimes it’s Nice to Get a Pat on the Back
Hi Mel, Thanks so much for your speedy reply, and for permission to use these awesome photos! I especially liked the one in the library with the "sun" glasses. :-) With regard to our school program, we have started a new nonprofit foundation (UnityWorks) and recently launched a pilot program in Yakima, starting with 4 schools - including Davis High.…
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The Right to Say I Did This
Trey, Thank you for your kind words about my WH project. I have never been quite sure what people might think of these photos. Panoramic images can hard to look at, with the distortion and all. It has never bothered me, I embraced the look years ago. But I often wondered with this work, would one see it as a…
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Still Standing
I have thought more about the idea we have discussed of teaching at the college in the sleepy little town. It's a great dream. For many years I had a client in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Just a few miles from Shepardstown, West VA, home of Shepards College. Talk about bucolic. There is a train station there...an hour to DC...the big…