“DEAR LEADER”

I know, epiphanies are not supposed to be casually ignored and that you’re supposed to do something with them like transform your life or cash them in, but who has time to wander beyond these sudden intuitive realizations, when you can just as well dismiss them.
For the most part, if I am lucky enough […]

I had forgotten how much fun it is to shoot what’s on broadcast TV. In the seventies and the early eighties, a lot of photographers built their entire careers on taking pictures of what was on the telly. The resulting images are somewhat gimmicky and never that interesting, but undeniably fun and entertaining. At the […]

Andreas Gursky and Massimo Vitali (pictured above). Can’t I just say that I like Massimo Vitali but don’t care much about Gursky? Many happy returns to Mr.Gursky, but still, have I suddenly become French, or something? Do I not like him because he comes from a people who rapes our women and drinks […]

Here are some of the books I have read or re-read in the past year and would highly recommend. Since I have reviewed some of them as of late, I figured I’d throw in a few more. All these books are great but I’ll add a star next to those which I felt were better […]

In the early spring of 1938, my grandfather was approached by a representative of Chang Kai-shek’s government and was invited to lecture at Chongqing’s Polytechnical Teachers’ Institute. Chinese forces had recently moved their capital from Nanjing to Chongqing to continue fighting Imperial Japan’s brutal occupation of China’s coast and cities.
China’s strong man had been […]