Brave and Bereaved (Photo Meditation/46)
A Dear Layla chapter entitled Solidarity/2 begins Dear Carla One of my temporary partners in Gaza is Noreen McCarty (We all come and go) Who declared to us newcomers one day “There are no women…
Category: Photography
Colloquium with Cami
Cami and I are taking turns each month sharing something with each other. Last month I did a session on Gurus, Teachers, and Mentors, and this weekend she shared the following reflections for our writing…
Carrie Niswonger, Cami Kasmerchak, Oliver Clark!
I thought this might interest you–on the work on Henri Cartier-Bresson at Eric Kim’s web site.
An Amateur Is One Who Loves…
I was at RISE Coffee today with Carrie, who’s soon headed off for first year of university at Mizzou. Early on in our conversation, she asked me if I’d like to see some of her…
Deep Looking
You can practice Photo Meditation As you take in this article by Damir Sagolj On Agent Orange An Excerpt: “There is not much I can do about it with my pictures except to retell the story,…
Share the Wealth with Julie Johnson–Creative Serving: Giving Back to St. Louis with Photography and Art
Julie Johnson is a photographer and public school teacher in North St. Louis County. She owns a card company called STL Heart Cards. She captures off the beaten path spaces, people, and experiences in St….
Photography as a Way of Life
for Oliver, Cami, and Julie Sebastião Salgado, From my Land to the Planet Contrasto, 2014 I first heard the name of Sebastião Salgado from Mev in the early 1990s. She esteemed him more than any…
Share the Wealth with Oliver Clark: “The Other Side of St. Louis”
For our next Share the Wealth, Oliver Clark will be speaking about his experiences doing street photography in North St. Louis. In the past year Oliver has photographed the homelessness, drug addiction, abandonment, and recent…
Deep Seeing
Dear Chris, For me, one of Thich Nhat Hanh’s greatest gifts is the original 14 precepts of the Order of Interbeing (first published by Parallax in 1987). As you know, I include the 4th precept…