Excited to be in the mix of Oranbeg Press’ latest publication and online exhibition Net 2.8: What Will Suffice, juried/curated by photographer, writer & publisher Tim Carpenter. A big fan of Oranbeg Press’ consistent creative mark in the independent photography & publishing world, it’s an honor to have images chosen based upon the exhibition’s great […]
Afternoon, feet and sandals submerged in the Schuykill. The temperature feels so good. A reckoning, refreshing. I didn’t walk barefoot enough this year. Reading Mary Oliver reconcile anxiety and night tremors, awaiting the morning redbird outside her window. Rum on my tongue. Orange anodized flask, wedged between rocks and river bottom. Revelry on the shore […]
Finally getting around to photographing recent hand-pulled photo etchings. This past Winter and Spring in the printmaking studio was a productive, perfectly inky time, producing numerous etchings and subsequent small editions. I spent those months making and pressing plates from my 2017 & 2018 Havana photographs, but also from travels in Portugal, and domestically along […]
Making room on the top shelf! Daniel Shea’s 43 – 35 10th Street. This is a massive brick of exciting imagery. Everything from the images, to the design, to the conflated shifts and changes of pairings, mood and materials is nothing shy of aesthetic celebration. Some artists just nail it everytime. Shea’s work is a […]
Ended the first day of my 45th year happily pulling this etching off the plate. Edition of 5, on BFK Rieves, 115 gsm
Finally getting into the studio, to the production and possibilities of intention with my Havana photographs. Imperfection is the perfection I’m after . . . .
Another edit commences after my 2nd travel to Havana in 5 months. It’s been an enormous inspiration and education getting to intimately know Cuban people, building friendships, experiencing their music and seeping into their welcoming culture. The moments have been profound, invaluable examples of resourcefulness, courage, individualism, optimism – all attributes under the overarching principles […]
Honored to be interviewed and featured in the November, 2017 issue of Dúplex magazine, a beautiful publication out of Valencia showcasing artists and designers in Spain and elsewhere. Much thanks to Dúplex editor Paco Ballster and Armand Llàcer for the interview, whose print house LaImprenta published my book “a musing from the rocking dock”.
I have been incredibly distracted by late Autumn’s treble of light, lost deep in the woods of mind and briar. This gray day comes on and upends all discovery. I feel stunted and dumb, dragged out from the underbrush, bungled.
I don’t even know where to begin in spotlighting the brilliance that is Russian photographer and publisher Irina Popova (Ирина Попова). I can say this – the newly released, 2nd version publication of her ambitious body of work If You Have a Secret embodies all the courage and intellect of the young artist. I had […]
