May 29
India
For the past three decades as I traveled the world on assignment I
have witnessed children working in fields, factories, ditches, tunnels,
mines, and ship-breaking yards.
Kabul, Afghanistan
The scope of the problem is vast.
Hundreds of millions of children spend their
childhood working and do not have an opportunity to
play, go to school, or live in a healthy environment.
Apr 6
Posting my monthly photos is such a pleasure that I thought I’d blog about it. Lately I’ve found myself thinking about how I write a little bit about the month that was and decorate that story with pictures. Every month I change everything on the page, so it all disappears – like a jazz improvisation, of which I’ve played a few. Badly. And a long long time ago :)
December
I am, of course, such a nitpicker that I like to make sure that each line in my gallery reads as a triptych that can tell a little story. Why do I make life complicated? I don’t know. That’s just me.
See? Above is a trio from the other day. I thought it was hilarious that the collar on a mannequin in a bondage store would read “Om”. WWGHS? (trans: What would George Harrison say?)
It’s not that I think of an image as a part of a story. I think, rather, that each photo IS THE story. So something about exhibiting is influencing what I shoot. And really? What’s wrong with that?
February
Two things about that is good. It forces me to look at an image from a number of angles. Not that I didn’t already do that. I’m obsessed with that. But this makes me reach a little deeper, and I’m happy about that. It also forces me to meet the rigorous standards set by my boss :)
March
I hope you enjoy this month’s Fresh Baked. Click here to get there.
The other March
If you like what you see, tiptoe through the portfolio while you’re here!
This is “Star Power”, the most viewed, “clicked” and sold of my portfolio
Until next time…
On the other side of the world, as I type this and as you read these words, there are some people writing history in a capacity we can only imagine. Day after day, they love. Through the good, the bad and the very ugly, they choose love. Because love is the only thing that is strong enough to reach into those places, the only thing strong enough to pick people up and help them move on.
There’s a line from Henry David Thoreau that’s an old favorite of environmentalists: “In wildness is the preservation of the world.” Not many people have taken that idea so much to heart as the great Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, who spent much of the past nine years trekking to the last wild places on earth to take the pictures collected in his new photography book,
It came a couple of days late this year, but Spring is definitely on its way. Stopping by Loblaws at Dupont and Christie, I had some fun with their Spring cleaning project – a series of paintings to hide the train tracks to the north. What is it about grocery stores that stimulates my whimsy?
People always want to know the origin of “Sorry…” (below) and they’re amused to hear that it comes from the parking lot of a grocery store in Calpé, a town on the Spanish Mediterranean.
The humour in the Loblaws paintings are a little more subtle. It consists of imaginary tree branches reaching up to meet those of real saplings caught between the paintings and the fence. The addition of birds and shadows completes these little oddities: Cheerful photos with a wink.
I hope you enjoy them! I went back yesterday to take some of these with my large format 4×5 , so stay tuned for an update!
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