Lumen Dei: Kumbh Mela, India
Gavin Gough and I are thrilled to announce that we will officially start taking applications for the 2010 Kumbh Mela Lumen Dei photo workshop and tour. Now, I could wax eloquently about the tour for hundreds of words. But, Gavin has such a nice English lilt I will let him tell you all about our tour and workshop. Gavin if you please?
“It’s difficult to measure the excitement with which Matt Brandon and I are announcing this photo tour. Off the scale probably.
Christmas Break
Christmas in Kentucky 1961 Unlike some of you workaholics, I am going to get in touch with the familial side of me. I am going to put down the pen for a while and focus this time, whilst in the good ‘ole U. S. of A., on my family. It is a choice I am [...]
Depth of Field: Chris Orwig
Today I speak with Chris Orwig, an instructor at the Brooks Institute of Photography, about what prompted him to write Visual Poetry, his approach to teaching students, why we need to “slow down,” and what we can do to become better photographers. Chris is one of the wisest guys I know. The guy has an [...]
James Nachtwey: An Opportunist or An Opportunity
This weekend I became somewhat frustrated with the photographic community. To be more precise; I became frustrated with a small, vocal, fraction of the photographic community. Attention was drawn to a blog post by an associate of James Nachtwey. Nachtwey, if you don’t know, is one of today’s premier war photographers. He is a turn-of-this-century [...]
Multimedia: The Cheese Man of Kashmir
I have been quiet lately for several reasons. First, in the most responsible for my lack of communication is I have been working frantically at redesigning a whole new blog site. A brand-new theme that will eventually integrate with Photo Shelter. At this point, there still a few bugs, but I hope to be live [...]
Depth of Field: Ami Vitale
This past September we where fortunate to have Ami Vitale as a guest instructor on our Ladakh Lumen Dei photo workshop. It was a great experience and I deepened a friendship. Hear me when I say, Ami Vitale is the real deal. She is a true, in the trench, get dirty photojournalist; And she’s one [...]
December's Wallpaper
I don’t have any current snowy images that I can use to make the December Wallpaper for you. No icicles hanging from the eaves or people huddled around a fire. Sorry, I live in the tropics. So, I decided to at least give you a high key desktop image. This is an image of a [...]
The Hands of Rat Island
As you know, I’ve been giving myself assignments lately for several reasons. Of course the main reason is just to push myself. But another and just as important reason is to force myself to get out into my community. I travel all over the world, and shoot every imaginable location, but the place I probably [...]
I shoot for mostly NGOs and nonprofits. I photograph images of the unknown, the forgotten and the helpless. These are often the stories that most people overlook. 
