Iceland, summer, 2019—I love churches, mainly as symbols of quiet and stillness. I’m intrigued by “religious” or “spiritual” values: charity, kindness, sacrifice, forgiveness, transcendence, and so on. I’m especially fascinated when religious values conflict with profane ones. Like efficiency, productivity, and the bottom line. I salivated when this alarm-red truck rocked the scene in Reykjavík.Continue reading “Take Me To Church”
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The Color of Water
Glaciers are mesmerizing. All that gray, swirling ceaselessly, Above in the clouds and below in the water. Then suddenly—almost prophetically—a splash of blue. Onlookers are drawn to prophetic blue. A patch of yellow signals the arrival of someone else. A comrade-photographer angling low for a shot. Before long, the scene shifts. The colors intensify asContinue reading “The Color of Water”
Out Shooting Horses
July, 2019. Iceland, dusk. In the summer, twilight lasts a long time. The sun never never fully disappears. It flirts with the horizon. Skirting, touching, and dipping beneath it, briefly. Then it pops right back up again. I made these images at 11:30 at night. My family was asleep. I was not. I crossed the road,Continue reading “Out Shooting Horses”