Three Gestures

Three Gestures
Three gloves, picked up from the street, seem to retain the gestures of the people who lost them. Read more…

The Brown Sisters

The Brown Sisters The Brown Sisters, 2010

The Brown Sisters, 2010

In 1975, after photographing his wife with her three sisters, Boston photographer Nicholas Nixon decided to take an annual  portrait of them. Although Nixon changed the location and the frame of the portraits from year to year, he posed the sisters in the same postion--his wife, Bebe, the second from the right and Heather, Mimi, and Laurie around her. He ended this project in 2010, thirty-six years after the initial portrait. In a recent artist talk, I discussed how Nixon's Brown Sisters uses the continuity of placement to draw attention to similarities and differences over time and among… Read more…

Tucson Photo in LENSCRATCH’s Cell Phone Photo Exhibition

Tucson Photo in LENSCRATCH’s Cell Phone Photo Exhibition
One of the cell phone photos from my ongoing Plants::People project is included in LENSCRATCH's Cell Phone Exhibition. LENSCRATCH, a blogzine founded and edited by Aline Smithson, periodically offers uncurated exhibits to give photographers a wider audience for their work. This exhibit, which launched today, includes some amazing work. Read more…

Artist Talk on Marlboro Lights Series

  At Seattle's Ida Culver House Broadview my Marlboro Lights series is included  in an exhibition of contemporary still life works depicting the detritus of life. Next Tuesday, April 23rd at 7:30 p.m., I'll be giving an artist talk about the series. Read more…