A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

Category: Photography

Cleaning Up Rikers Island Photos and story: faith leaders and incarcerated boys work side by side to repaint a youth jail.
July 4, 2021 People watching NYC fireworks from the FDR highway.
Nighttime meditation in East River Park November 28, 2020. Members of the Village Zendo meditating outdoors at night in Manhattan's East River Park.
Meditation at Home Photographs of Village Zendo members in early 2020.
Climbing Under Lockdown March 29, 2020. The gym has been closed two weeks, I'm starting to climb the walls.
Joren's Shuso Hossen March 8, 2020. Joren Sarah Drury gave her first dharma talk and engaged the community in dharma combat.
Meditation at the Village Zendo November 24, 2019. Meditation at a Zen temple in Manhattan.
Yokoji Zen Mountain Center August 2019. Yokoji Zen Mountain Center, in the San Bernardino Mountains.
Year End Meditation Retreat December 2019. Yoga and sutra-copying at the Village Zendo's year-end meditation retreat at the Garrison Institute.
Heartwood Sutta Jeff Shugo Berman's quartet played on scraps of raw wood, inspired by a story in the Pali Canon. I covered the performance for Tricycle Magazine.