Archive for the ‘Unpublished’ Category
Ghosts of debates past, and present….
And now that the debates are over and we are all holding our collective breath: A look back at 2004, and a series of images that still sums up best how watching these hollowed-out spectacles makes me feel. View the rest of this entry »
Happy 4th of July – postcards from another NYC heatwave
It’s hot, it’s summer, it’s New York City…. I spent the evening cooling off at Coney Island. No flags, just the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Including a bona fide Saint Christopher of the boardwalk.
Here’s to 2012 – Welcome!
A selection of images from the Despers steel drum yard in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. View the rest of this entry »
A very analog sidewalk memorial to Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs’ death from cancer at the age of 56 left people grappling with his legacy – undoubtedly he has to be credited for shaping the culture we live in like few others. As someone working in the visual medium I can appreciate how his life’s work of technical innovations enabled individuals to take creative control in the digital space. View the rest of this entry »
Ground Zero – Ten years later
The tenth anniversary of September 11th was many things to many people. Patriotic side show, election year soap box, corporate sponsorship opportunity, major police and secret service operation. During the official commemoration on the morning of 9/11, Lower Manhattan was on complete security lockdown, with access to the memorial site granted to family members only. During the previous night and the afternoon and evening of the 11th, however, the area around the active construction site morphed into a carnivalesque state fair of commemorative tourism – with vendors hawking their wares and assorted conspiracy theorists their drama, while the local fire station turned into some kind of a petting zoo for grief pilgrims. View the rest of this entry »
50 Jahre Mauerbau – Berlin Wall anniversary
Images from an ongoing series exploring Berlin’s evolving landscape, documenting how Germany commemorates the vanished East and the country’s separation during the cold war. In a city ever-changing, where layers of empires past are piled on top of one another or simply disappear, efforts to hold on to history vacillate between earnestness and denial, romanticizing and academic analyzing, conservation and neglect – and in between the plaques and public art displays, commercial opportunism finds its niches where ever possible. View the rest of this entry »
NYC waterfront – Broad Channel, Queens, on July 4th
Photographing local fire works in Broad Channel, a Queens enclave of about 3,000 people living on the only residential island in Jamaica Bay. Part of an on-going series exploring the new, and old, NYC water front. View the rest of this entry »