Music from what sounded like a drunken high school marching band reverberated down the street full cows, hucksters, potholes and people. I knew the cacophonous sound meant one thing – a celebration. Walking toward the rowdy music, I turn into a courtyard regaled in reds, oranges and the many colors of the rainbow as the [...]
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 [...]
2008 was designated the “International Year of the Potato” by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization. According to Jacques Diouf, the Director-General of the FAO, “The potato is on the frontline in the fight against world hunger and poverty.” I produced the above image while living in Tamil Nadu, teaching photography at Light and Life Academy, [...]
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 [...]
Or as this nomad likes to to say, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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