Despite the chilly temperatures and predictions of an impending freezing-rain storm, almost five hundred people stopped by the opening night reception of my Metro exhibition at the Blue Sky Gallery on January 5. The show includes over thirty images from Metro project which documents people interacting with one another in mass transit systems on four continents. Thanks to everyone at Blue Sky for doing a wonderful job presenting the work.

I’ll be giving slideshow and talk about this project at 3 pm Saturday, January 28, and doing a book signing for my monograph Metro: Scenes from an Urban Stage. The exhibition will continue through January 29. The gallery will be open from 10am – 6pm on Friday and Saturday and Sunday from noon – 5pm.

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I’m delighted that my photo A Sabbath Prayer was selected by juror Alyssa Coppelman for the Singular/Signature Exhibition at the Center for Fine Art Photography. The Exhibition will be on display at the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins from March 3 – April 1, 2017, with an Artists’ Reception on March 17, 2017

A Sabbath Prayer

This image is from my project The New Promised Land which documents Los Israelitas, an evangelical sect living along the banks of the Amazon River. This project was featured in LensWork #117. This project was a finalist in the PhotoWorld 2014 Exhibition, and received Honorable Mention in the 2014 ND Awards. It was on display at the Davis-Orton Gallery, and publicized in FeatureShoot and The Independent and The Daily Mail.

Thanks to Christy Karpinski for including four images from my project documenting La Fiesta de la Virgen de Guadalupe in F-Stop Magazine Group Exhibition Issue 80.

In the Capillia del Cerrito

Statues and Portraits

Touches of Devotion

Pilgrims on their Journey

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This celebration occurs every year on December 12 when millions of faithful converge on the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City. According to legend, the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego, a recently converted indigenous peasant, in December 1531 on a hill above the site. Pilgrims arrive carrying candles, flowers, and statues or framed depictions of the Virgin. Many people make the final arduous approach to the shrine on their knees in order to thank the Virgin for answered prayers or to ask her for additional miracles.

Six images from were previously featured in the F-Stop Magazine Issue #65 Group Exhibition.

I’m looking forward to returning to photograph the Fiesta again this year.

I’m looking forward to speaking at the Portland Photographers’ Forum meeting at 6:30 PM on Monday, September 19, at the Multnomah Arts Center. During my slide presentation, I’ll discuss my artistic vision, my thoughts on candid photography, and my approach to editing, processing and sequencing images. I’ll also talk about the preparation of my Daylight Books monograph Metro: Scenes from an Urban Stage, and signed copies will be available for purchase. The Multnomah Arts Center is located at 7688 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR.
Thanks to Carol Isaak and Michael O’Brien for arranging my visit.

I’m honored that my series Holy Week in Guatemala was awarded Honorable Mention in the SDN Fine Art of Documentary Competition. This project documents the moving traditions of Holy Week that were brought from Spain to Guatemala in the 17th century. These photos were taken in and around Antigua, Guatemala, in 2015 and 2016. This series was featured in Slate and F-Stop Magazine. It was also a Photolucida Critical Mass 2015 Finalist and a Px3 Competition 2015 Bronze Award Winner. Ten prints from this series are on display in the Blue Sky Gallery Pacific Northwest Viewing Drawers in Portland, OR, through March 2017.

Bearing the Burden

The Social Documentary Network is a website for people who believe that documentary photography is crucial for educating people on a variety of topics, and it has numerous compelling online exhibits submitted by photographers from around the world. Jurors for the competition were: Barbara Ayotte: Senior Director of Strategic Communications, Management Sciences for Health; Jeff Campagna: Associate Photo Editor, Smithsonian Magazine; Alicia Colen: Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY; Chelsea Matiash: Deputy Multimedia Editor, TIME; Andrea Meislin: Director, Andrea Meislin Gallery, NY; Kurt Mutchler: Senior Photo Editor for Science, National Geographic magazine; Molly Roberts: Chief Photography Editor at Smithsonian Magazine; Glenn Ruga: Founder and Director, Social Documentary Network and Executive Editor of ZEKE magazine.

Isadora Kosofsky was the winner of the competition, and three other honorable mentions were Annika Haas, Keith Harmon Snow, and David Verberckt. Eleven additional finalists include Dario De Dominicis, Ian Flanders, Pierpaolo Mittica, Gabriel Romero, Ryogo Shioda, Karen Sparacio, Carol Allen Storey, MaryLou Uttermohlen, Jan Zychlinski, Alex Scott, Ilana Panich-Linsman. Congratulations to everyone for their wonderful documentary work.