Socially engaged participatory photography, video & writing
From my journal of May 24, 2026 The concert—ravishingly beautiful and deeply moving with its high energy and innovation—featured Dee Alexander from Chicago, singer and composer. The program notes included a short history of Chicago jazz, not only the usual musicians like Louis Armstrong, King Oliver and Freddie Keppard but Thomas Dorsey and the influential jazz […]
13th Station of the Cross-On the steps of the Massachusetts Statehouse in Boston-Agape Community’s annual observance-April 3, 2026 Jesus is dead, painfully and virtually alone. His corpse hangs from a wooden cross with nails in his hands and feet, chest pierced by a lance, derided by Roman soldiers who are enablers of that occupation, scavenged […]
Now, flying back home, Juneau, Alaska to Boston, Massachusetts, a distance of some 3,500 miles, 1,000 to Juneau to Seattle, 2,500 Seattle to Boston, all nonstop, with a 5 hour layover in Seattle. Many opportunities for aerial photographs. Same problem with an iced wing in Juneau as in Boston on the first flight, but no […]
Flight! Only on my bike and while flying in the big aeroplane can I experience the thrills and terrors of flight. I book a seat next to a window, make sure it’s not over a wing, prepare the settings on my non-phone camera, and hope for views. This series began when my younger daughter, Kate, […]
A potpourri of photographs: skiing and walking on Lake Mendenhall, from inside the Heritage Cafe during yet another heavy snow storm, natural aging head hair, a performance in the theater space of the renovated Episcopal Church after it had burned to the ground in 2006, and concluding with the 6 year old Apollo’s first use […]
During late February 2026, with my daughter Kate, I visited family in Juneau for 9 days, 2 of them travel days because of the distance from Boston. Unsurprisingly, snow was a major factor in the landscape—hiking and for others, not me because of foot problems, skiing. I could concentrate best on using my camera when […]
Every October at the beginning of autumnal leaf dropping in New England, the Agape Community hosts people from around the region for a full day gathering in central Massachusetts. This year’s theme—A Call to Resistance—dove into multiple social-political issues such as the growing totalitarianism in the United States (and around the world), genocide in Gaza […]
Billed as a dialogue between Katherine Clark and Bridget Moix, General Secretary of the Quaker lobbying organization Friends Committee on National Legislation, Clark engaged in an unanticipated interchange with supporters of Palestinian liberation. Protestors, mostly affiliated with Massachusetts Peace Action, challenged her by standing up to display photographs of Gazans, mostly children, killed…
In early August, 2025, I experimented with a new-for-me form of retreat. For 9 days I overlaid daily explorations of Quabbin Reservoir and Forest and participation in The Agape Community in Central Massachusetts, 3 miles east of Quabbin Reservoir, with attending online an annual Quaker gathering held in Amherst, Massachusetts. I thought they’d fit together […]
As part of my landscape photography, merging with portraiture and abstract approaches, I add here a short series from a recent visit I made with family to family, to my granddaughter at the end of her first year at Bennington College in Bennington VT. My former wife, LB, and our daughter KD, visited ED and […]