This sections includes current news on projects and campaigns I’m working on including notable news like announcements of awards and partnerships with major brands.
For those transitioning into life in a new city, there’s that period. You know. The one wedged squarely between mere traveler and bona fide local. Between a few basic phrases and a couple insider jokes. That ongoing period called immersion. No doubt, the key to getting beneath a culture is to learn its language, but …
The Jumbo Hostel in Stockholm has been all over the news recently. Was at the airport two weeks ago to survey the Boeing 747 hostel as well as interview its owner for the Matador Network. As an artist drawn to bold, loud colors, I love his choice of colors in this room – dark blue …
Well…technically not in French, but I was contacted last week by the photo editor of a French Magazine for Kids, Science et Vie Découvertes. She’d stumbled across my blog, found a few “delectable” Surströmming photographs, and wanted to use one for an upcoming article in the magazine. I’d never heard of them, but figured anything …
I watch streams of melted ice-cream race down the sides of warm, thin pancakes…finally pooling around a glob of sweet lingonberry jam. No doubt, this Nordic weekly tradition of pea soup and pancakes I’m gonna love. It got me thinking about other food traditions that have gradually infiltrated my world. Growing up, I remember waiting …
“Ha! War-shing-tone!’, she exclaims in heavily accented English. “Obama! I am so happy for you!”, her dark eyes gleaming from a face creased with age. While she’d been prepping for a funeral, I’d pulled her aside for questions – this old Swedish church lady well into her sixties. Ten minutes after our questions had been …
I received the urgent email in November through Matador. She was writing an article on Ankara and had read a blog post I’d written awhile back about this native fabric essential to daily life in Nigeria. They needed photographs ASAP.Skeptical at first, ample research on my part followed. Soon enough, photographs and details were exchanged, …