Soccer games are important. Elementary school plays and concerts are important. Breeders of rats are important. Gay marriage, especially in a small town, is very important. So-called small stories are important to small towns. Stories about coffee shops and the insidiousness of strip malls. Real America, the tangible, unique gritty realness that has nothing to [...]
It’s been over seven months since I returned from India. It took me ages to wade through the thousands of photos that I shot there. I also shot a lot of film too. It was such a great feeling to go pick up chromes from the lab again and experience my trip all over again [...]
For being so wonderful and giving me this beautiful weather while I’m home. For waking me up from the last of my winter doldrums. For being quiet and calm and having windchimes everywhere. For the rhododendrons.
This is the Godfather of competitive eating, the original and the still-revered. We did this shoot a few weeks ago in Brooklyn and he brought his own mink coat. The man is a stone-cold badass.
Mat’s 30th birthday this weekend was epic. Large quantities of vile beverages were consumed. We are still recovering and it’s Monday. The good news he is now old like me.
The latest in my competitive eating series with retired eater Krazy Kevin Lipsitz. He used to practice eating against his dogs. Yes, that’s right. Here they’re eating a #13 sandwich from the Carnegie Deli.
Whenever I need a refresher, artistically or otherwise, all I need to do is head up the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s free and they have a pretty lax standard for photography. Everywhere except the special exhibits it’s fine as long as there isn’t any flash. I mostly look though. After a few hours here [...]
Are you tired of Indian weddings yet? I’m not! I’m finally in Mumbai and I’m attending one on Friday and another on Sunday. I’m looking forward to more colors, more jewelry and more fun. I’ve bought a ridiculously gorgeous (and expensive!) green and red sari so I’ll finally be a part of the fun. Maybe I’ll [...]
Jaipur City Palace is beautiful and magnificent. And for my purposes of taking pictures or people, pretty slim pickings. I followed these schoolchildren around for a while until they kept asking, “One photo madam. One photo!”
As we entered Rajasthan we started to notice a definite trend, most of the women were veiling their faces. Their saris were tunic-style and exposed less skin. Surprising to most Westerners is that India is an extremely modest and conservative culture. And these were not conservative black Muslim veils. They were gauzy, seductive and ultimately I think [...]
Indians have quite a sweet tooth. There are hundreds of varieties both local and national. Every market or bazaar has at least one sweetsmaker, toiling over his pot of boiling milk. Most of the sweets are way too sweet for my taste and without the tartness of a berry or lemon that I prefer. But [...]
I’ve been offline for the last week or so as we traveled through the Shekhawati and back into Jaipur. I’ve also been shooting more film (with the engagement ring!) and so I don’t have as many pictures to show you all. Shekhawati was somewhat disappointing. I’m not sure what we were expecting, but this wasn’t [...]
It was another night of weddings in Pushkar. Laura and I have been unable to figure out why this time is so auspicious for weddings. Some people tell us it’s the weather, others the moon. We’re not sure.
Pushkar is a very small village without even a railway station. There are almost no paved roads outside [...]
You’ve all been waiting for it. And I have as well. The real India, the colors, the saris, the beautiful women. I’m here to tell you that I’ve found it in Rajasthan. We’ve been the last few days in Jodhpur, but an extreme bout of stomach flu kept me from posting about any of it. [...]
That spire in the background is part of one of the first mosques ever built in India, around 1199. And that is as close as I could get to it. I traveled all the way out there to see this complex, and it was closed. Tres Indian. I could see through the fence, manicured lawns [...]
I know everyone is waiting for me to post something about the crazy things I’m doing in Delhi. But the truth is jet lag kicked my ass and I slept in until 2pm. The most adventurous thing I did today was buy a toothbrush because I’d somehow forgotten mine. This picture was taken right around [...]
It’s been a while since I remembered how fun my job can be. I’ve been working on a small portrait project for a few months focusing on competitive eaters. They are a friendly, welcoming bunch and everyone I’ve approached has been happy to take time out of their lives to let me get goofy with [...]
Have you heard of Kaiju? The best way I can describe it is live-action Japanese anime wrestling. It’s like high-energy WWE crossed with all the weirdness of Japanese monster movies. All of the “wrestlers” are characters that you would never recognize. One is called Dusto Bunny. Another is Kung-fu Chicken Noodle. My favorite is a waffle-shaped called French [...]
This self-assignment was born out of frustration. I was on a not-so-exciting assignment last week when I ran across the postcard for the Manhattan Amateur Classic children’s ballroom dancing competition. I spent a few minutes getting mad about why I never get sent on these types of assignments until I realized that I could just [...]
I had an assignment the other day at La Esquina, the superhip, trendy restaurant in the bottom of a taco spot downtown. Last night I happened to be back in the neighborhood and was hungry for a fish taco. This is the view out of their diner window.
Sometimes it’s just about nothing but the light, and the music, and the girl.
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Richard Serra at the MOMA
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