Buy the book https://www.abebooks.com/9781593720346/Sadness-Men-1593720343/plp One of my favorite photographers died yesterday. I am lucky that I took his classes in college and became his friend. I'm sad because I won't be able to talk to him again, but I'm happy to know he isn't in pain anymore. I can't think of anyone who was more influential to my photography. I really don't know what to say. The purpose of this is just to get others to check out his work. It is stunning. I just have some...

One World Trade Center, New York, NY (Cell phone image) This past weekend I made my first trip back to New York since 2019. I would say a few things have changed in my world and the world in general during that timespan. For example, I now have a young travel companion. We took the train from Baltimore and arrived on Saturday in the afternoon. We were lucky enough to stay with family in Manhattan for this trip. We did lots of expected touristy things on her frist trip to the city, but also I...

I have two photography heroes. I say that Robert Frank is photography God. Philip Perkis is the most influential photographer who I am priveleged to have learned from. In my first semester at New York University, one of my favorite professors and now friend, Mark Jenkinson, said that when he was in photography school his cohort always talked about Robert Frank points. If a photograph had elements of a Frank photograph, it got Robert Frank points. I was taught that one image in a roll of 36...