Postcard: Tough Sell
Taken in the remote village of Krang Yaw, Cambodia, this picture cracks me up every time. Totally unamused by our balloon animal project, his little face said it all. Camera – Nikon D40
Depth of Inspiration
“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 …
Postcard: Church Hunting
And thus begins the search for the perfect location. Scurrying briskly in the chilly winter evening, we crisscross the city, gravitating towards every steeple we catch in the distance. Magnificent buildings, subpar surroundings. Excellent surroundings, rather mundane buildings. Until we find her. She is beautiful and reeks of perfection. But this is just our first …
V is for Vogue
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, …
Faceless Voices
It seemed surreal staring at the cover of the complimentary copy of Faceless Voices that arrived in my mailbox last week. I remember chatting with Temo two years back when it was still being written and finalized. She needed an image for the book. After bouncing a few ideas back and forth, we played around …
Postcard: Amidst the Flames
We’ve all taken photos at some point where images and other oddities are “captured” in addition to our subjects. I remember once while alone in a cell in Auschwitz, I was having problems with my flash. Once I finally got it working, I snapped the picture only to develop it and find two “faces” in …