LOOK3, Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, VA is like the Lollapalooza of photography. Billed as three days of peace, love and photography, the festival transforms the small pedestrian mall in downtown Charlottesville into both an indoor and outdoor venue for screenings, exhibits, open air projections and lectures by legacy artists such as Mary Ellen...
Category Archives: Projects
Destino – project update
I spent close to five weeks in Mexico in January and February, visiting migrant shelters in the states of Chiapas, Oaxaca, Veracruz, San Luis Potosi, and Coahuila as part of my ongoing project photographing Central American migrants. For safety reasons, I had to abandon my initial plan of traveling from Mexico City to the U.S....
Destino: Central American migration to the U.S.
Drawn to the frontier edginess and melancholy of the region, I began photographing along the U.S. – Mexico border in 2000, shortly after reading Cormac McCarthy’s, The Crossing. The novel begins with a boy finding a wolf caught in a trap on his family’s Arizona ranch. He treks across the Sierra Madres into Mexico to...
Laredo, Texas (From the series, Borderlands)
I’m beginning the arduous process of sifting through ten years of work on this project. I literally have piles of 4×5 contact sheets scattered about like playing cards, spiral-bound proof books, small work prints in every dimension, boxes filled with hand printed, selenium-toned 8×10′s that I made in my basement darkroom. I admit, I’m somewhat...
Home of Mercy migrant shelter, Arriaga, Chiapas, Mexico
The Home of Mercy migrant shelter rules are listed on a poster taped to the wall: guest stays may not exceed a period of seventy-two hours; men are not permitted in the women’s dormitory; lights must be out at 10 PM; beds must be made every morning and the sleeping quarters must be swept regularly;...