- 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.
- 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 [ ... ]