Natural disasters are ever increasing with climate change, and in California, we have been bracing ourselves for The Big One for decades. We are kept alert by tremors and shakers that seem to state,”Don’t get too comfortable”, but another disaster, insidious and onerous, has equaled in its horrors. Wildfires, raging out of control, spreading into […]
Documentary
J.T. Blatty: Frontline–Peace Life: Ukraine’s Revolutionaries of the Forgotten War
“I am still good towards the Russians, they are people like us, normal people. Even the military. A Russian soldier is given an order, it’s his job, he is given an order, he obeys it and leaves to execute it. If he denies to obey an order, he will go to jail. These soldiers have […]
Kathleen Y. Clark: The White House China
The Penn Museum in Philadelphia has a current exhibition, Memory Keepers: Why Objects Matter, about a subject that I have considered over the years while disposing of several households worth of possessions. What gets passed on to future generations and what gets discarded? We keep objects that hold history, memory and more importantly, hold a […]
Charles Rozier: House Music
Charles Rozier has a new book, House Music, from Dewi Lewis Publishing, that aptly describes a world filled with the music of children, dogs, relatives, friends, and family under one roof. I first featured the project in 2013 and was moved by his personal photographic legacy. The work now spans almost thirty years, beginning with […]
Thomas Sussex: Pathway Trace
Understanding other cultures and countries comes from walking the landscape, the cities, and engaging with the population, but how do we understand a country that has been under siege, experienced war, and has a new identity? UK photographer, Thomas Sussex (@tommy_sussex), has had a long interest in understanding Eastern Europe since 2014 when he began […]
David Freese: Mississippi River, Headlands and Heartlands from Delta to Gulf
Some time ago, I featured David Freese‘s book, East Coast: Arctic to Tropic that followed an earlier effort, West Coast: Bering to Baja, documenting the coasts of our continent. Comingin July, David has a new book published by George F. Thompson in Staunton, VA, Mississippi River: Headwaters and Heartland to Delta and Gulf which completes […]