Street Photography in the Time of Pandemic
I spent a couple of very welcome hours at the Pike Place Market last week. I likely won't return there for the foreseeable future --...
Waiting for Lower Water, Paris 1978
When I was in Paris in the spring the Seine was very high -- high enough that the river boats couldn't get under the bridges. There was...
I wish I could claim to have seen this at the time!
As I was flattening the prints I made yesterday I smiled at this month's Print of the Month (or thereabouts) of the guy on the ladder...
How to Respond?
How to Respond? This is a bit heavier than my usual blog post content but this has been on my mind a lot. Philip, a photographer friend,...
"Out with a Pocketful of Film"
I spent a good deal of time this month freshening up my website (and not a minute too soon either.) I was embarrassed by how many...
A new year -- a new portfolio
Morris “Uncle Morrie” Manzo Manzo Brothers High Stall, 1975 I believe he was market patriarch Socio Manzo’s younger brother but I’m not...
Music from Cuba
December's print of the month is from one of the better parties I've been to in a long while. Our neighbor down the street was a chef...
"The Everydayness of Life"
George Tice is one of my photographic heroes. Not only is he a spectacularly fine printer but his photographs are very much about the...
Still Spying on Memories
October's Print of the Month (or thereabouts) is the latest of my reprints of very old negatives from the Pike Place Market. I'm working...
"Journal of the Plague Year"
Daniel Defoe published, in 1772, his experience in London of the last epidemic of bubonic plague in London in 1665. Defoe was a writer...
