justice card

JUSTICE, tarot card XI

 My Photobook class was assigned to do a tarot card for a class deck.

Everyone picked one - I chose Justice, No. XI

Appropriate, as I grew up the daughter of a lawyer.

And, as the professor, I get to give the grades!

(collage: pope innocent X by velazquez,

collage elements from national geographic,

& red leaf).

I'm inspired to do a whole deck now.

teaching teenagers photography

I just finished teaching a three-week intensive darkroom class at SVA with 15 teenagers, average age 15. They were wonderful. Worked hard, came in early to develop film, spent many hours in the darkroom and many more shooting pictures. I'm very proud of them, and myself, and my Teaching Assistant, Molly Matalon. A good time was had by all....

alex

alix

anna

anny

betsy

hannah

kaya

kayla

kelsey

oren

peter

sammie

sean

stella

Respecting My Elders, book published

My long-awaited book "Respecting My Elders" has been published and is available at the link below:. 

http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/530767

It costs $25 and comes with a free digital download. The book of 94 pages is perfect bound and has portraits of 30 very interesting creative people, all over the age of 80, photographed in their homes and studios. It was designed by Renee Rockoff. 

You can see the whole book in preview mode. 

There is a wonderful introduction by Marion Winik, which you can read here: 

http://www.baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-beautiful-old-man-with-a-piano/

And, there is a wonderful article on the project by Laura Paull, here:

http://www.3200stories.org/blog/2013/06/24/age-and-the-creative-spirit-a-photographers-portraits-of-the-greatest-generations-artists/

Thank you to everyone who contributed and to everyone who posed for me!
I will be posting separate images and information on the portraits in the near future....

My cousin Lynn, RIP

 Lynn Rowland, April 11, 1952 - May 8, 2013

Cousin - friend - cohort- fun person to be around. Family. Making fun of family. Laughing in that deep booming throaty sexy voice. My cousin, my sister. My cousin. My friend.

My grandfather married her grandmother when we were both eleven. The grandchildren picture says it all, 7 of us posing (at Bachrach's!) all dressed up and smiling. While our mothers sipped sherry in the vestibule "To take the edge off."

Lynn was exactly six months older than me, to the day. In that picture she'd reached puberty and I still had pigtails. We were connected from that moment on. And forever.

What to say about my cousin. That she was smart, funny, loving, real. That you knew where you stood. That she was honest, kind, appreciative. Musically and artistically talented.

She was brave. She was forthright. She was concerned. She loved her parents deeply. Happy the last years of her life were spent up in Maine, near them, caring for and being cared for. A gift for all of them.

She called me at the beginning of May, or maybe it was April.
 "Coz, I've been thinking of you, are you okay?"

I am more than okay, but she wasn't.
I'm so glad we spoke. And that I sent her one more photograph of the backyard where we'd grown up and hung out together.

I miss her.

spring in connecticut

the backyard
may 4, 2013
a beautiful spring morning

moonrise over backyard

moonrise in connecticut, april 20, 2013.
how lucky i am to get to be in the country each weekend, and see the change from week to week, season to season, morning to night.

leach hollow road, sherman, ct. april 13, 2013.