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 »
Twin Towers – Ten years ago, 9/11/2001
I photographed the collapse of the Twin Towers from Jersey City’s harbor, just across the Hudson River from the World Trade Center. After the first tower had fallen, I briefly went home and saw what I had just witnessed reproduced on TV. I sensed that my experience of watching the South Tower fall was being supplanted by the repetitive, numbing loop of imagery on CNN, accompanied by the pundits’ analyses of what it all had to mean. 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 »
New York City pools are open for the summer!
an oldie but goodie….. and off to K-pool to cool off!
Marta! for Der Spiegel
Women’s Soccer World Cup begins in Germany. Can’t honestly say I am rooting for the home team…
Graying of AIDS on MSNBC.com
Graying of AIDS: Older Americans at risk for HIV infection.
Anna Fowlkes, 64, didn’t date for years after her husband, Sonny, died of a brain tumor. And after she finally did, she learned she’d become infected with HIV. View the rest of this entry »
Our Family: Made in India. Produced for The Collection iPad Magazine
Collection Magazine goes live today with their special issue on reproduction: The Global Baby. Featuring the story of an American couple looking to complete their family via gestational surrogacy in Mumbai.
VW North America Chattanooga plant for Volkswagen Magazin
Portrait series of workers and management in a newer, greener plant for the North American car market – bye-bye, Mexican Beetle… Produced for Volkswagen’s German customer magazine, with additional video content for their iPad version.
Mumbai waterfront – Marine Drive
Visualizing a perfect, breezy summer evening, while diving headlong into editing the India/Arizona surrogacy video, and it’s snowing outside.
