Photographing a story on the Pushkar camel fair is something I had wanted to do since hearing about it shortly after arriving in India to teach photography in 2002. In the fall of 2008, the right opportunity presented itself and I found myself under the Rajasthan desert sun surrounded by thousands of nomads. What I [...]
In the fall of 2008, I made a trip to India to visit former students and get my creative juices flowing. After 20 hours of travel, crossing multiple time zones and very little sleep, I touched down to the mayhem of Mumbai at one in the morning and let Paul Liebhardt talk me into foregoing [...]
This project goes to show that spontaneous creativity happening collectively can be a powerful force.
FISH IN THE FILTER The massive cumulonimbus clouds ripe with rain were well over a month away from rolling atop the blue hills of the Western Ghat mountain range in Tamil Nadu and enveloping the region in the mist of monsoon. My pet project for the dry season at the photographic college where I was [...]
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Or as this nomad likes to to say, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Saturday, December 13, 2008
While working on the original Ram Ram Man post, I began messing around with my audio in Apple’s brilliant Garage Band and came up with this remix by adding a few samples and loops to the morning chanting. Having played Violin for most of my life as well as plinking around with a number of [...]
Thursday, December 11, 2008
“It’s four am in the morning! Time to get up!” The annoying little man says in Hindi into the PA system that seems to be mounted above my head. I fantasize about finding the loudspeaker and doing my worst to its wiring system with my Leatherman. My mosquito net hangs dangerously close to my exposed [...]
Saturday, December 6, 2008
I struggled not to gag from the exhaust fumes in the gridlock of Ajmer. Night was falling rapidly and the main street of the town in the heart of the Thar desert seemed like a narrow canyon leading to Hades filled with honking vehicles, smoke and dust. I motioned to my rickshaw driver that I [...]
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Even though I have never visited Jaipur before, it is the India I remember… the wild merry go round of life. Full of friendly touts, and mad streets, blaring horns and sensory overload. The India that makes one realize that India is not for everyone. I have many more thoughts to verbalize from the day, but my eyes are [...]
Four years ago, the smog in Mumbai was so bad that walking around burned my eyes and wiping my face with a white handkerchief harvested a black crop of ash and dust after a couple of passes across my brow. According to my former student, now professional advertising photographer Amogh Thakur, two years ago the city [...]
Pushing through jetlag, waking up with the sun. Mumbai is still mostly asleep. India seems tamer, kinder, and gentler than I remember. Children run through the pigeons at the gateway of India as the sun rises. The city slowly comes to life around me…
Thursday, October 30, 2008
This morning, I got to visit with some old friends. The friends were images I had created in high school and are some of the first “good” pictures I made in my life. Printing them off for another old friend this morning reminded me of why I love photography — for the simple pure thought [...]
