A Call To Connection

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. There's something mysterious about many of the images you are about to see.   Unaltered images look altered. Altered images look unaltered.   It's a sign of the times. How do we know what we know?   Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing?   Perhaps the questions are more important than the answers because they start a never-ending process of inquiry.   This work is a quest for perspective. It's an inquiry into possibilities.   This work dissolves boundaries in an attempt to find new possibilities. This is an important time for photography, the most influential visual medium in history. We've seen more change to the medium in the past decade than we've seen in its entire 150-year history. Change is not new to photography. It has always changed and been an agent for change. Photography itself was an experiment and...

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Antarctica

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  . Antarctica Facts February 2007 . Antarctica is composed of two geologically distinct parts bridged by a vast iceshelf, the larger East Antarctica is a large sheet of continental crust (roughly the size of the United States) exposed only at the coastline and in the 2000 mile long Transantarctic Mountainss covered by an ice sheet averaging 1.6 miles thick and the smaller West Antarctica a cluster of smaller blocks of continental crust and an Andean-like chain of mountains forming the Antarctic Peninsula covered by the West Antarctic sheet (13% of the Antarctic ice sheet), most of which is grounded below sea level, down to 1.5 miles below sea level. Antarctica abounds with unique geographies. Lake Vostok, buried under 11,000 feet of ice, is the...

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Seeing Is Not Believing, Believing Is Not Seeing

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. It happened suddenly, a television commercial brought it all together for me. An advertisement for the Dublin Times gave me a thirty-second crash course in media studies. The film was scratchy, gritty, high in contrast, and black and white – visual clues to the proposed truth value of documentary photography. Images flickered depicting a brawny youth in leather, with military boots and a shaved head racing down the street, past two concerned elderly ladies toward the viewer. Just committed a crime? The voice-over stated, “Seen one way, a picture tells a certain story.” The images cut to another view where the youth was now seen rushing past the elderly ladies away from the viewer towards a well-dressed businessman turning as...

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