Beer & Wine

Sign, near the corner, in the 700 block of Columbia Road NW, Washington DC.

I was searching for a street memorial (a murder occurred in this block recently). I found this instead. Old school, but fresh.

My Mother

I try to visit my mother, Lee Wolf, every week.

We couldn't go out to eat because it is Passover, and could not go for a walk either, as Canadian geese have nested in the garden of her residence. The geese are apparently rather aggressive in protecting their young.

So, we talked. As we are both prone to doing.

William Shakespeare's Birthday Party

A few choice images from an assignment for the Folger Shakespeare Library. They put on a marvelous celebration every year in the Bard's honor.

William Shakespeare - All the world's a stage (from As You Like It 2/7)

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

Amazing face

From an editorial assignment at a high-school psychology science fair.

One of the presenters.

Straight shot.

Eleventh Street NW, DC

A number of images that I found interesting on Eleventh Street NW, Washington DC, while out looking for a street memorial to Jose Hernandez-Romero.

Eyes open. Life is short.

And interesting.

April Fool 2011

Annual report

Rocco Zappone

Portrait of Rocco Zappone.

Book Hill / Georgetown

Some outtakes from an assignment for the Washington Express on people in the Book Hill section of Georgetown.

Cherry trees at night

Georgetown. Washington DC. Streetlight.

Beauty.

Polaroid Journal excerpts (from the vaults)

For many years I kept a journal composed of polaroid images. I scanned these today.

This set is all from the 199o's


More about this work.


They don't make this film anymore... blogging has replaced the old handmade books.

It is what it is, and it ain't what it ain't. (Thanks to a lyric by Kevin Dudley)the 1990's

Newborn, mojo, a gambler, and handcuffs (from the vaults)

I just scanned four unrelated images from my files. They make a kind of sense to me today...

The baby is from a newborn unit in a hospital a while back, the woman gesturing powerfully was at a union gathering I covered, the gambler studying the racing forms was at Laurel Raceway in Maryland , and the handcuffs were on a wall at a prison in Baltimore.

All these photographs are outtakes from assignments

Crows over Przemysl/Red Thread (from the vaults)

My grandparents came from Bachow, a shtetl near the now-Polish city of Przemysl. My daughter and I traveled there in 1998.

These crows appeared in the graying sky as we first emerged from our vehicle, they were almost directly over Bachow.

Most of the family left in the great Jewish emigration at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. Some made it to Israel after World War II, but many perished in the Holocaust.

This material is from the project Red Thread.

There is an excellent blog chronicling the history of the Jews of Przemysl.
http://przemysl.blogspot.com