- Amaryllis II
A few weeks ago I photographed the amaryllis my mom gave me. It's been wilting ever since, and last night it abruptly ceded the battle to stay upright. The shape it's in now is even more dynamic than when it was in blossom.
- A Village Zendo Scrapbook
Since, as I have mentioned recently, Zen is very much an accredited situation, my temple sends annual reports to The Soto School of North America, which itself answers to Soto Zen HQ in Kyoto. It's been pointed out to us that no one wants to [ ... ]
- Headshots
I did a couple headshots for friends last week—this is not my usual mode of photography but it's great practice, and I love how they turned out.
- Mushrooms
- Amaryllis
- Chodo
Last weekend I photographed my friend Chodo, a priest at the Village Zendo, caring for a friend in hospice.
- Scatter Sites
This week I met three people who receive some assistance from a transitional-housing organization but don't live in a facility; they live independently in "scatter sites."
- Boxing in the Basement
In late 2010 I was photographing for The Lo-Down, the Lower East Side news site founded by my friends Traven Rice and Ed Litvak. Traven and I heard about a basement boxing gym run in the Vladeck Houses by a guy named Lou, so we went to meet him and [ ... ]
- Hungry Ghosts
Each summer during our meditation retreat, the Village Zendo holds a ceremony to feed the hungry ghosts: all those suffering and unsatisfied. Here's my teacher Enkyo Roshi leading the ceremony. Every mistake I can make in the darkroom I [ ... ]
- Jukai
August 12, 2012. The Village Zendo's lay-ordination ceremony, Jukai, in which eight students received the Zen Buddhist precepts.