1.27.09. martes.

read on the metro, don't lean on the doors

I went to a portfolio review in the end of October, and two editors, of the magazines Foto8 and Daylight, told me several interesting things, a few of which were that I need to see rejection as irrelevant, that multimedia matters a great deal, and that my portfolio wasn't well-organized, which makes sense, more or less, since my life isn't that well organized.  One editor also asked, 'What project are you working on now?' to which I had to reply, honestly, 'Well... nothing.' 'Why?' And it sounds like an excuse! It feels like an excuse! It IS in fact, an excuse! That my more-than-full-time job is not photography but something else entirely, that I live in Moscow and I don't speak Russian and I feel like real life (and photographic work with any real depth) in this city is completely inaccessible to me. And this editor said, 'Well, why don't you photograph that?' Huh.

la vuelta a Moscú

After the winter break of three weeks spent hiding out in Plattsburgh NY, I am happy to be back here in Moscow, the place of constant contrasts... the wealth and poverty, the calmness and chaos, the isolation in the crowds, the history alive in the modern world... so here some photos: the first, a park, in fall, some peace and quiet from the speed of the city, and a place that is blissfully silent but also always full of people and pets and old-time baby carriages ...


The second... the street I live on, the lights, the traffic, the constant commotion...

family portraits 2008