Chasing LightWelcome. This is where I share my work and also the work of others, those that inspire me, the weird, the great, the unusual.
It is a goddamn marvel this life. Take a look.
Saint Petersburg | Vi, Chaise, Shirt VIII
Arnold Newman | Portraits
If it’s a good photograph and says something about the person, than I think it’s a good portrait.
Bucharest | Sir Richard Bishop
It was 1984 in Washington, DC, at the height of that city’s legendary hardcore punk scene. We were young, aggressive and frustrated, and though not dumb, the amount of things we didn’t know were huge.
Raising Arizona | Hi’s Letter to Ed
My dearest Edwina,
Tonight, as you and Nathan slumber, my heart is filled with anguish.
Barcelona | Nefka I
John Malmin | Darkness Falls in Watts
Aug. 13, 1965: National Guard troops secure a stretch of 103rd Street, dubbed Charcoal Alley, in Watts
Saint Petersburg | Anastasia, I
Werner Herzog | On Celluloid
Celluloid? No, I am not nostalgic. I still love it. Of course I love it. But digital film making has helped me to work faster and to work less expensively. So that’s why all of a sudden I’m coming out with four films, all of them ready for distribution. The system of distribution is too slow for my output.
Los Angeles | Christina
Hiroshi Watanabe | Suo Sarumawashi
Sarumawashi, literally “monkey dancing” evolved over a 1000-year history in Japan.
Exarcheia | Anthi I
In the Exarcheia neighborhood of Athens.
Akira Kurosawa | Group Compositions in Seven Samurai
All of his films contain his usual bravura compositions, but it is with his ensemble films like Seven Samurai and High and Low that you get to see Kurosawa craft such classic fluid group compositions, sometimes composed of a dozen actors, never crowded or confusing, always clear and focused, the menagerie acting like a visual chorus.
Istanbul | Kanaat Lokantasi
At Kanaat Lokantas in Kadıköy, Istanbul.
I spent a few weeks in Istanbul, taking the ferries every day. No agenda, no plans, just taking random ferries to the Asia side of the Bosphorus. I’d wander the neighborhood, shoot the streets and people, settle down some place for lunch.
Constantine | Tilda Swinton as Gabriel
There are few things finer than this casting choice and styling.
Hanoi | Big Toe
One of my favorite images.
The reasons?
Saint Petersburg | Vi, Chaise VII
André Kertész | Landing Pigeon, New York, 1960
This was taken around 59th Street where they had demolished the houses, and I saw a pigeon flying in and out.
Hanoi | Lunch
Shot on my favorite film, the original Agfa APX 400, printed on the legendary paper, Agfa 111.
Arthur C. Clarke | The HAL – IBM Myth
And I’ve been trying for years to stamp out the legend that the word, that the letters HAL was derived from IBM by one letter displacement.
Bucharest | Birthday Dinner
I was at a cafe in Bucharest and met this lovely group of people at the table behind me.