Floating City | Venice During a recent trip to Venice, I had an unusual desire to make images in which people are not central. Instead, place became the focal point, largely because the floating city to me is magical, haunting, and utterly unique. Venice is built on pieces of wood; pylons cut centuries ago and [...]
Click here to view this artwork, A Morning Walk | Mandalay, and its currently available sizes. A Morning Walk | Mandalay I gravitate to changing light and visually conflicting elements when I am making images; although when that kind of high drama happens in my personal life, it can be scary. I might resist and flee—instead [...]
Click here to view this artwork, Yellow | Papua New Guinea, and its currently available sizes. Yellow | Papua New Guinea Twenty-four years after I visited the Huli tribe in Papua New Guinea, this image of a boy and his younger brother remain etched in my memory. Areas of the South Pacific country appeared in 2000 [...]
Click here to view this artwork, The Wait | The Forbidden City, and its currently available sizes. The Wait | The Forbidden City This gentleman sits with patience in a vestibule within the vast Forbidden City complex. Visitors to the Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing often bustle past the [...]
Click here to view this artwork, Peace in Greatness | Thailand, and its currently available sizes. Peace in Greatness | Thailand If we title this image “Elevated View” and decide to take a similar perspective on the world around and within us, assumptions and associations drop. Everyone knows the sudden splendor of our continent, [...]
Click here to view this artwork, Eriashi | Japan, and its currently available sizes. Eriashi | Japan With precision, the aspiring geisha, known as a maiko, meticulously practices the iconic makeup application, including the sacred ritual of drawing eriashi (neck lines), the two vertical lines drawn that leave the nape of the neck exposed symbolizing not [...]
Click here to view this artwork, Whispers of Spring | Japan, and its currently available sizes. Whispers of Spring | Japan When I came across this image when editing work from my recent trip to Japan, I first thought of porcelain. Then, I remembered their humanness when seeing these young women in the flesh, in real life. These [...]
Click here to view this artwork, Sakura's Passage | Japan, and its currently available sizes. Sakura's Passage | Japan I traveled in early April to Japan with one primary purpose. I was eager to document the Sakura blossoms that arrive each spring and are widely—and wildly—celebrated in the country. Although these glorious blossoms appear at about [...]
Click here to view this artwork, Afternoon Prauer | Tibet, and its currently available sizes. Afternoon Prauer | Tibet There are many monasteries for monks, but when visiting this nunnery in Tibet, I felt a special sense of presence unbound, of spirits untethered by time. There was thick, woody incense smoke and when sunlight streamed through [...]
Click here to view this artwork, Bridge of Sighs | Venice, and its currently available sizes. Bridge of Sighs | Venice If asked by a viewer of fine art what to focus on or notice about a photograph such is this one I made in Venice, I say, “Whatever you’re drawn to. Let your eye guide [...]
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