Some of my favorite stories and photographic series
Airport & Southwest: Recap of final weekend of Fall 2021 walk
Segment 9:Around the airport (Hog Island Road) It’s the final weekend of this fall’s Walk Around Philadelphia and we’re headed into the home stretch, circumnavigating the airport today and then following the creek back up to 61st & Baltimore where I started a few weeks ago. (If you’ve missed the earlier blog posts, you might…
Invisible River – preview!
An amazing shoot on the Schuylkill river in preparation for choreographer Alie Vidich’s ‘Invisible River’ performance…
Fear not the rain…
We’ve had a lot of storms and rain lately, and Philadelphians are probably relieved to see sunshine on the forecast. While I like the sun, I’m always a little bit surprised to see how upset people can be by rain. I was recently shooting in Manayunk, where we had a storm roll through our outdoor…
Lessons from a “failed” Kickstarter
$38,000+ pledged disappeared overnight. Here are a few reflections on the campaign, lessons that I learned, and what might come next.
Why do we compete?
Two interesting experiences from this weekend that I’d like to share: I spent Saturday evening onstage at the Kimmel Center, acting as a judge in Southeast Philadelphia Collaborative‘s talent show. While I’d originally been asked to act as a judge for the visual arts exhibit, I ended up being roped into judging the performance component…
Feb 2021 Walk Around Philadelphia: Day 3
Pine Rd, the Northeast / Poquessing Creek / Knights Rd… This might be the longest and most ambitious segment of the six-day itinerary, at least for those of us coming from W. Philly / Center City. I was up by 4:15 in order to leave enough time to get ready and make it to the…
This Town Is A Mystery…
One of my favorite moments at this year’s Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe was getting to share in Headlong Dance Theater‘s dress rehearsals for “This Town Is A Mystery”… Such a beautiful set of pieces that I wanted to share a bit of it with you:
Shale Gas Outrage
That’s Dana Dolney. Those breasts of hers are fake. I first met Dana in the airport in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, back in 2002, long before her battle with breast cancer. I was thrilled to see her back in good health, joining the throng of citizens in the streets of Philadelphia for last week’s Shale Gas Outrage,…
Dance & Movement
Photographs of some amazing movers & performers…
Medical – Mt. Sinai
Medical work in the Dominican Republic and Honduras.
Radical Hospitality
How I learned the right way to make a breakfast burrito. Three hundred times in one morning.
If you cook it, they will come…
Here’s one of my recipes for community building… It’s not top secret; please go right ahead and replicate or adapt it for your own neighborhood. I guarantee nourishing results.
Lee & Amy’s Secret Surprise Wedding…
Lee had only just proposed that morning, and then Amy found out that the wedding would happen that very same day. She got married on two hours notice, and it was amazing. Here’s the whole story……
Feb 2021 Walk Around Philadelphia: Day 4
The Delaware, from Glen Foerd to Pier 68… Day 4 begins where we’d left off, at the Torresdale regional rail station, with a train that was scheduled to get in at 7:09am. There’s more folks joining the walk today, and I’d told those who were intercepting us at Glen Foerd to get there earlier if…
Delaware days: Recap of 3rd weekend of Fall 2021 walk.
Segment 6:Torresdale towards Bridesburg We started off this weekend’s iteration of Walk Around Philadelphia having already walked halfway ’round the city, from 61st & Baltimore up Cobbs Creek, along City Ave, up the Schuylkill and around Chestnut Hill all the way to Fox Chase (recap of first 3 days) and then all the way around…
Le Grand Continental
Chasing after a wild dance performance by a citizen ensemble at the foot of the Philadelphia Museum of Art…
Walk AROUND Philadelphia
The beginning of an epic pilgrimage around the city’s perimeter. Here’s the story of our first day on the walk…
Everyone Is Photogenic: A story from Togo…
Does having a grapefruit-sized tumor on your face mean that you’re not photogenic? Certainly not.
March for Rights, Respect & Fair Food – quick reportback
Report back from the 200-mile March for Rights, Respect and Fair Food.
Philadelphia’s secret garden…
A tunnel beneath the city,
a canyon between the buildings &
a meadow over the rooftops…
The Engineers (or, how Sugru-powered magnetic flash mounts help prove that everyone is photogenic…)
A bit of photo gadget geekery alongside some portraits of engineers in Togo…




















