Submarine on the Ij Been busy working on a grant proposal about photographing megachurches. See posts below. Today, we joined a protest march against the imprisoning of an illegal alien child awaiting expulsion with his mother from the Netherlands. This is but one of hundreds of cases. Children in jail. The Netherlands. Land of tolerance. […]

Shells collected by Brendan, my son. Yesterday the United States Senate led by the Republicans and a few cowardly Democrats betrayed the fundamental values of my country by passing a bill that nullifies the Geneva Conventions even as it says the opposite, unconstitutionally undermines habeas corpus rights, and gives to the President potentially dictatorial powers. […]

Continuing the post of a few days ago, I traveled out to Queens to photograph the Korean Presbyterian Church, a so-called megachurch designed by the noted architect Greg Lynn. Although this building has significant architectural merit (article here), what interests me most is the new religious landscape, the way in which religious expression manifests itself […]

Korean Presbyterian Church, Queens, New York Looking past the Lower East Side to a new project I’d like to do, I took the subway out to Queens to photograph the Korean Presbyterian Church. For some time, I have been interested in the phenomenon of megachurches and the way in which they are redefining and/or fitting […]

I took the train to Boston to visit Rodger Kingston a photographer, collector, and Walker Evans scholar, among other things. We met online recently after I posted my reactions to the Evans show at the UBS gallery in New York. Rodger is a great conversationalist and generous with his time, and I had a most […]

Crowd at the New York Botanical Garden On Sunday I traveled to the Bronx to see Dale Chihuly’s glass sculptures set among the plants of the New York Botanical Garden. While on the train I read in the Times about Hiroshi Sugimoto’s photographs of Richard Serra’s sculpture Joe, which is situated in the new Pulitzer […]

On Saturday I continued my Lower East Side project walking down Eldridge Street to Chinatown. As usual I used a 4×5 view camera, and snapped similar images with the digital camera. Some are quite close to the 4×5 frame, some not. All the pictures below were taken with my Ricoh GR. Eldridge Street Chrystie Street […]

This is the poster for the exhibit I am doing in the Czech Republic of early portraits of Suzanne Vega. I’ve known Suzanne since the late 1970s when I first arrived in New York. Here is a previous post with some of the images in the show.

Back in New York, an overnight two day shoot of interiors at a golf club in the Hamptons. Then scans, color correcting, and delivery to the client. A busy week. Monday, of course, marked the fifth year since the destruction of the World Trade Center, and I was happy, in a way, to be busy […]

The Movies, an art house on the Haarlemerdijk Woody Allen at The Movies on the Haarlemmerdijk Brendan, my son, Tussen de Bogen Continuing my walk in the neighborhood around the Haarlemmerdijk in Amsterdam. I photographed my son along the railroad viaduct leading in and out of Central Station. Brendan stands before a night view of […]

On the bus near Central Station Haarlemmerdijk Walking the Haarlemmerstraat and Haarlemmerdijk one comes across lots of odds and ends in the store windows. Here Elvis makes yet another appearance. Amsterdam is not known for Art Nouveau architecture, but it can be found in various spots around the center of the city. A bit later […]

Today, I walked from Central Station to the Haarlemmerpoort. Once you clear the touristy mess near the station and walk west on the Haarlemmerstraat and Haarlemmerdijk one finds a lively mix of shops, mostly mom and pop operations, and the odds and ends of urban street life. It is, perhaps, Amsterdam’s best street for window […]

Pont 13. An old ferry transformed into a floating restaurant.