Category Archives: prayer and despair

Tasveer Online Interview about portraiture and India

16th
Apr. × ’12

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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Prayer and Despair Folio update

13th
Feb. × ’12

Elephant, Kutch India, 1995. Platinum-palladium print from 8×10 negative Prayer and Despair : I have just updated a body of work done while traveling across Russia, Siberia, Honduras, India and Japan during 1995. A handful of images have yet to be added from Russia and Siberia. A short statement from that time, which was written towards [...]

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fifteen years ago in japan

18th
Dec. × ’09

Pond, Anrukanji, Japan December, 1994

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Taha Muhammad Ali

1st
Mar. × ’09

Angel. Jodphur, India. 1995. platinum-palladium print.  When Taha Muhammad Ali speaks of poetry and words, to me, he also speaks of photography and vision. His work engulfs me. Buy his book, So What, and read ‘The Falcon’. Where Poetry hides somewhere behind the night of words behind the clouds of hearing, across the dark of [...]

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diwali, a time for light, appreciating dark

28th
Oct. × ’08

Moonrise, Araam Hotel, Jaipur. 1995 Platinum-palladium print, 8×10 in 

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wishing gentleness to Gustav

31st
Aug. × ’08

Deer fence. Near Irkutsk, Siberia. 1995 platinum-palladium print, 8 x 10 in

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moonrise, lake baikal

27th
Jul. × ’08

moonrise, Lake Baikal, Siberia. from series, ‘Prayer and Despair‘ 1995. platinum-palladium print, 8×10 in. My friend Chris Bucklow, in a discussion (What’s in the Dwat) of Phillip Guston’s work, considers the use of rising suns as a symbolization of polarization and dichotomy. Multiple suns, moons, selves; multiplicity. Even Salman Rushdie, in his new book, The Enchantress of [...]

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unmade bed

10th
Jun. × ’08

unmade bed, Mumbai, 1995. platinum-palladium print, 8×10 in.

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coconut

9th
Jun. × ’08

Coconut. Gujerat. India. 1995 platinum-palladium print, 8×10 in

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traveling with mark

26th
May. × ’08

wood. sky. near lake baikal. 1995 platinum-palladium print, 8×10 inches. This image was made in one of the most ‘natural’ spots on this planet that I have ever been to. And yet, what I formed my thoughts around is the result of death and decay, and ultimately, rejuvenation. Photographically, this image is not at all [...]

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