Look Closer

Photo and Audio from NYC.

Beijing 2008

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I know its been a long time since I last updated Look Closer and it hasn’t been because i haven’t been taking pictures. Quite the opposite, I’ve been busy taking a lot of pictures and have not found the time to update as often as I should.
For the past month I’ve been in Beijing photographing the city during the Olympic games. It has been a really amazing experience, being in one of my favorite cities during such an exciting time. Here are a few links to some of what I’ve been working on. More to come soon….

China: Beijing’s Vanishing Hutong (PBS)

Tattoos, Once Taboo, Gain Street Credibility in China (NYTimes)

In a Beijing Park, an Oasis for Mind and Body (NYTimes)

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Central America B&W

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I just got around to developing the one roll of film I put through my Lomo on our three month trip through Central America and Mexico. I’ve forgotten where some of the shots were taken but they still bring back the dry, dusty, lonely feeling that some of the places we visited evoke.

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Rainy Day Midtown

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Fifth Avenue

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A few images from a long walk down Fifth Avenue from 145th Street to Washington Square Park.

Check out the interesting new web magazine, Bertha Mag, whose current issue features some of my work along with a bunch of other excellent photographers.

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Central Oregon

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We just got back from a relaxing week-long visit with Tara’s family in Portland, Oregon. After a few days spent celebrating Christmas and checking out Ali & Evan’s new cafe, we headed up to Evan’s family cabin in Central Oregon. We cooked food, slept in, played with the dogs and just enjoyed having a little time away from it all.

Happy New Year!

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Art Basel Miami Beach

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We spent a long weekend in Miami, visiting friends and family and taking in the various art fairs.

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Coney Island

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A few photos from a late season visit to Coney Island.

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Air Guitar III

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A little overdue, but here are some photos from the latest Air Guitar Chmpionships. Congrats to Andrew “William Ocean” Litz for making it to the World Championships in Finland. See more of my Air Guitar photos here and here.

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Las Vegas

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I had high hopes for Las Vegas. It has always occupied a place in my mind as a sort of seedy wonderland. A place where the rat-pack history would jump out at you and all night parties would be impossible to escape.

Admittedly, we gave the city a very cursory inspection but what I saw was little more that a depressing Disneyland theme-park. There were plenty of overweight families walking around with big gulps and obnoxious frat boy revelers but little of the charm that I was expecting.

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National Parks

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I have many fond memories from my childhood of the family flying from our home in Massachusetts and going “out west.” This usually consisted of driving around various parts of the Western and South-Western United States and visiting the many National Parks.

What I observed this time around was a great mix of the natural beauty of the parks and the comic absurdity of middle America enjoying their leisure time.

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