Tasveer is a gallery complex in India, and has recently published an online interview about my portrait work from ‘Prayer and Despair‘. This is the first of a two-part interview. … Read the Tasveer article with images… Nathaniel Gaskell of Tasveer: To begin with, please can you tell us a little bit about the series: [...]
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Tasveer Online Interview about portraiture and India
Haiti Earthquake
Since the tragic earthquake in Haiti, I have been posting news and information (mostly links to other resources) on my Twitter/Haiti feed. Twitter has been overloading frequently, mainly due to a large increase in Haiti-related traffic. Rather than add to this network jam, I am going to back-off on Twitter, posting there on only the [...]
Orkney Futures
A small piece by me is included in the recently published ’Orkney Futures: a handbook‘: A new collection describing what may lie ahead for Orkney. From Nobel prizewinner Seamus Heaney to Orkney poet Robert Rendall, OIC Convenor Stephen Hagan to Orcadian, Big Brother celebrity Cameron Stout, 49 views of the future to inspire and encourage. [...]
Pradip Malde *WAS* [chuckle]
It is amazing how the web can be crawling with comments about oneself, almost to the point where an alter-personality takes shape, and the me-that-I-know-as-me fumbles along, morphing on another plane of existence. Today, flu-bound and bored, feeling sorry for myself and full of the blahs, I started trawling for this other me. I found [...]
ETSU talk
I gave a talk at the Ball Hall auditorium at ETSU, Johnson City, TN tonight. I am putting the slides up for a few days, (sorry – this will take a few moments to load) and then ask people to just take a look at the complete folios listed to the right. Thanks to the [...]
two hours
Madame Yolande Lafontant, Mr. Bossuet Sainvillus, Ms. Gillen Warn and Pere Fritz Lafontant meeting with Sewanee students for breakfast this morning 8:42 AM CST Sewanee students and community watching a live-cast of President Barack Obama being sworn in, 11:04 AM CST. Today, within a space of two hours, I went from having breakfast with Pere [...]
quiet
Pere Fritz Lafontant. Haiti, 2007. From the series ‘Looking at God‘ 22×22 inches. Archival pigment print Been a bit quiet on the blog and site – just dealing with the busy-ness of a new semester, and this historic week. Along with big MLK celebrations, tomorrow, Sewanee is giving an honorary degree to one of my [...]
Imagining the Tenth Dimension – Rob Bryanton
String theory and the 10th dimension, simple…
imogen cunningham in atlanta
Imogen Cunningham: Magnolia Blossom, 1926 Imogen Cunningham’s work, along with Bernice Abbott’s , is showing at Lumiere Gallery in Atlanta. A must see.
work at National Galleries of Scotland
Expiration II – from series ‘Campsite for the Non-Citizen‘ Archival pigment print, 32 x 24 inches from 11×14 negative Some of my work, including the image above, is on show for a few more days at the Royal Scottish Academy. It is part of the ‘Kaleidoscope‘ exhibition, which “showcases a selection of seventy of the [...]
