Rickshaw Pullers of Kolkata
Click on the images to view larger. I lived in India for thirteen years. In that time I only ever flew through Calcutta, or Kolkata as it is called today. This week I find myself in this amazing place. It is significantly different than Delhi and other places I have visited or lived in India. [...]
Guest Blog: Marco Ryan
I’m going to go down a bit of a rat hole. I’m even going to give it a name: value. You’ll already be wondering why a post that begins “I’m going down a bit of a rat hole” might have anything to do with Focus for Humanity – a newly launched foundation aimed at giving [...]
A Conversation With Ami Vitale
I first met Ami a few years back in New Delhi. We both were getting our Macs worked on at, what was then the only Mac repair place in North India. Not sure how we started chatting but I found out that she had just returned from Kashmir. I told her I lived up there [...]
Lumen Dei '09 – Special guest instructor Ami Vitale.
David DuChemin and I are thrilled to be announcing plans for next year’s Lumen Dei tour. We’re still working out details like budget and itinerary, but we’ll have that up and on the site soon. Here are the broad strokes. September 2009. Ladakh. Special guest instructor Ami Vitale. That last part should make you very, [...]
Vitale Video
If there is one thing I have learned over the past few years of shooting images and visiting with some world class photographers, it’s most of the very talented photographers are nice, really nice people. One of the more pleasant photographers to come down the pike in a long while is Ami Vitale. You’ve seen [...]
In The News
I am sorry it has been so long in posting. I have been up to my gills in setting up house, getting insurance and finding transportation. I should have a phone line with in 7 days with significant internet speed, or so they tell me. It had better be for price I am paying. I [...]
Ami Vitale's Kolkata's Rickshaws
One of my favorite photographers is Ami Vitale. We met in a small shop in Delhi. I did not know who she was at the time and wondered what this petite American girl was doing in Delhi at an out of the way Anything Mac store. Later when I wrote her about her website, she [...]
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. 
