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A Great Day in Meriçleri
The Last Generation of Congregants, Congregationalist Church, Meriçleri, Bulgarian Thrace, 2004. Rolleiflex Xenotar ƒ2.8, digital scan of a 400ASA black/white negative. In all likelihood, I’ll never...
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Guns of August, Books of August: The Iconography of a Gravestone in Prague
Gravestone, Vinohrady Cemetary, Prague, Autumn, 1998. Roleiflex Tessar ƒ3.5. Digital scan of black/white negative. Click on image to enlarge. In the late 1990s, work on a series of projects for Dutch...
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Stone Cliffs, Stone Beach, Stone Walls, Lord of Stone
Cliffs and Sea, western coast of the Black Sea near the village of Kamen Bryag, northeast Bulgaria, late-1990s. Rolleiflex Tessar ƒ3.5, scan of print. Geology transcends the ephemera of political...
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Farmyard, Grandmother, Chicken, and Ovid in Exile
Village of Kamen Bryag, 2005. Rolleiflex Xenotar f2.8, 400 ASA C41 process b/w film, scan of print. The woman in the photograph above arrived at the Bulgarian Black Sea coast during the Second World...
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Reconsideration: Eye to Eye, Squint to Squint, and Thoughts on Who is...
Paint store workers, Perşembe Pazarı, Galata, Istanbul, 2013; B/W negative; Rolleiflex Xenotar f2.8. Click on image to enlarge. I have not posted to this site since mid-year, 2015. Conceptually,...
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Recollections of Sofia: Empty Balconies, Life Turned Inward, and Harsh Light...
One summer, a little over twenty years ago, I took to wandering the streets of Sofia, Bulgaria late in the evenings, with a medium-format camera and a light-meter slung over one shoulder and a heavy...
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The Hague Recalled: Restrained Decoration, Self-Conscious Uniformity, Class...
S’Gravenhage, Den Haag, The Hague: Three names for a single Dutch city, the seat of government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, set behind the sand dunes of the North Sea coast. I lived and worked...
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The Hague Long-Ago, A Visual Footnote: Minimalism and Wry Humor
Further to my previous post on the Dutch seat of government, the city of The Hague, a visual footnote: In the 1970s and 1980s, the old downtown core of The Hague was in limbo. 17th- and 18th-century...
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Amsterdam-South, Long Ago: Rounded Corners, Garden Gnomes, Dreams and...
To tourists at least, the city of Amsterdam is best known for its historic urban core of 17th- and 18th-century townhouses set along a grid of concentric and radial, tree-lined canals, and for its...
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Spolia: From the Sublime to the Delightfully Utilitarian
Spolia embedded in the facade of a Seljuk-era mausoleum, environs of Eskişehir, Turkey, 1997. Scan of print of b/w negative, Rolleiflex T Tessar f3.5. Click to enlarge. Two examples of spolia, the...
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