Learning to speak photography
Generally, families have one main photographic collection to preserve their memories and history. In fact, I have two: a collection of private memories and a collection that documents my activities as a working photographer. The private collection has the standard snapshots: ones of children (whose names we have long forgotten) brightly smiling behind a series of birthday […]
Audrey Hepburn has gone missing
We were visiting a friend in Vancouver, Canada and I was exploring the city. There was a commercial gallery selling studio portraits of Hollywood stars from the 1940s to the 1960s. I entered the gallery. It was a large, brightly lit space. Framed black and white photographs were displayed in single rows on the walls. As a serious student of […]