Ben Ehrenreich’s “Desert Notebooks,” proves many things. First, he is one intelligent dude. Second, he’s a solid writer in every way. Three, his references are the most detailed, most wide ranging of any author I can remember reading. In fact, …
Creative: Visual Revolutionary Podcast
Had a chance to talk with Ric Stovall on his Visual Revolutionary Podcast. Anyone with Kind of Blue embedded in their homepage image is okay in my book. This discussion is as real a conversation as I’ve had being interviewed …
Creative: Five Minutes of Mood
I remember the moment when the glass began to slip. In my fingertips and dangerously close to the safety of the counter. A two-piece device, one inside the other but neither attached to anything else but me. Free and floating. …
Read: Of Time And Change
Frank Waters is a legend in these parts, but I found this book to be a bit different from what I expected. Not bad, mind you, just different. Of Time and Change is billed as a memoir, but the majority …
Creative: Radius Books, A Visit
Friends were in town. Book people. Photography people. Doing what you ask? Well, working on a book, of course. Looks like I may or may not make a contribution. Even though I live in New Mexico, I rarely get to …
Creative: Tortured by Place
Sometimes you visit a place and the place never leaves you. I don’t think this is something anyone can control. There is no ability to turn it off once it has turned itself on. Typically, for this to happen you …
Read: Opium Fiend
Hey, nothing like a little drug addiction to spice up your Monday. In 1996 I went to Cambodia to document the development of a law school started by an American public defender who had ventured to Cambodia years earlier only …