Category: Photography

Shuso Hossen August 26, 2012. The Village Zendo's ceremony in which Seizan, our practice leader, gave his first talk.
Floating Lanterns August 10, 2012. The Village Zendo's annual floating-lantern ceremony to commemorate Obon. Near Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York.
Soldier Field November 10, 2012. Soldier Field in the rain.
Street Portraits 2 Some street portraits taken while I walked home from the Zendo Wednesday morning.
Street Portraits I'm taking Richard Rothman's "Photographing People" class at ICP this fall. Yesterday he sent us out into the street to find a spot with nice light and photograph strangers there. I haven't done that since I made the Strangers project last [ ... ]
Gloria and Rhoda I took some more photos of my dwarf hamsters tonight. This is Gloria, as far as I can tell: ... and this must be Rhoda: Rhoda seems to be scratching herself up lately, particularly her nose. But she's tough enough to survive Sandy and I'm sure [ ... ]
The Whisperers The New York Times's photo blog has posted a spooky, beautiful project, "The Whisperers" by Kuba Kaminski: In remote northeastern Poland there lives a group of elderly Orthodox devotees who are said to possess special powers. They can [ ... ]
In Transition I'm resuming a project I started almost three years ago, taking portraits at transitional housing buildings in NYC. The people in the photos I took last time lived in the facilities when I took their pictures; yesterday I went back to one of [ ... ]
Review of "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" by James Agee and Walker Evans "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" by James Agee and Walker Evans, 1941. I give up. I can't finish this nor ever will. Walker Evans begins the book with a few dozen photos, most of which are mediocre at best, a handful of which are among the best [ ... ]
Ordination Ceremony at the Village Zendo This April I photographed a tokudo, an ordination ceremony at the Village Zendo for my friends Kaku (pictured above), Tokuyu, and Oshin. It began in the early morning with elder priests shaving the novices' heads. Then we held a ceremony [ ... ]