Available Light
More than we can see—Dorothea Lange’s ‘Migrant Mother’
Learning more in Linda Gordon’s biography of Dorothea Lange, A Life Beyond Limits (NY: WW Norton, 2009) about the history this photograph—Migrant Mother—made me consider my own photography practice in light of hers.
Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine—A review
Claudia Rankine searches for conversations about white people’s complicated understanding of white privilege in Just Us, a beautiful book of poetry and essays accompanied by curated imagery.
Listening to Richie Havens sing “Helplessly Hoping,” New Year’s Day, 2022
Creative inspiration often takes its time meandering over multiple paths around my consciousness—certainly more often than it arrives quickly on a straight path from desire. After any angsty, confusing search, when I finally get to the idea I was looking for, I usually am certain that I got more from a slower, richer process and am grateful for what I saw along the way.
Book review: Clint Smith’s How the word is passed
How the Word Is Passed is a first-person account of Clint Smith’s travels to places in this continent and Africa to uncover stories that have been lost or hidden about the tragic legacy of slavery in this country.
Reading family photographs
“I thought about how there is so much information in a photograph--especially in a family photograph--that we never get it all in one go. We rarely see the same picture exactly the same way twice.”
Being here
…travel is central to my investigation of my ancestors' lives, particularly those who left Europe to settle this continent.
