Works in Progress
The “small view” is the “big view”
For the past year or so I have been working on a project looking at crime, poverty and life in between it all in Baltimore. For the last few months I have been sort of wondering, trying to figure out the next part of the story I want to focus on and I have been [...]
Get up, Stand up…
This week I headed to D.C. to check out an exhibit on legendary performer and musisan, Bob Marley. Marley has been a major influence in my life since I first heard his record when I was in junior high school. David Burnett, an amazing photojournalist, covered Marley’s life in Jamaica and then his 1977 Exodus [...]
Just Passing Through….
Airports…. what a facinating place, thousands of faces from all over the world passing through a single port, shooting people out in little tubes, depositing them all across the globe. A community of people in transit, stopping for brief moments between flights at the various watering holes or an empty row of seats to nap. [...]
Baltimore musicians represent…
I spent my Sunday with a few local musicians, Vibe Hott and Jerzey, making portraits. If you have a moment take a look at their myspace pages.
Arbitrary Happenings?
This weeks post is a continuation with a current project, I have two I am working on at the moment, both very closely related to each other. Happenings in my life sometimes seem arbitrary to each other but when I step back I see they are always connected. I have come to believe that these are the [...]
On Que
For the past few weeks I have been spending some time with the guys at On Que Records, a local hip-hop label in here in Baltimore. I am working on a story about them and as the work develops I will post it here on the blog, giving you small cuts from my edit. In this take [...]