The staff, the decor, the cocktails and the food were all real at Hakanai, and real friggn’ good at that. But the restaurant itself was fake, insofar as it was never meant to last longer than three nights; the word itself means “ephemeral” in Japanese. It was a [...]
An old house and the bulldozer responsible for its demise, Durham, N.C.
Double exposures have always fascinated me. There’s a real magic to the overlapping of frames, when negative outlines rendering positive images. While traveling through India this past December I shot twenty some rolls, mostly double exposures, with a tough-ass [...]
Back in May I worked on a photo essay about Transplanting Traditions, an educational farm outside Chapel Hill currently training ethnic Karen refugees from Burma in the skills needed to start their own sustainable farm operation. On Sunday, November 11, from 4 – 7pm, there will be a fundraiser with hot cider, Karen folk music, dancing [...]
A three-week old baby, Mia Graci Thompson, was found crying in this patch of tall grass in rural Stark County, Illinois, nearly 11 hours after being reported missing by her mother, Kendra E. Meaker, 19, who falsely claimed the baby was abducted from her car while it was [...]
The third installment of the Hopscotch Music Festival played out in the streets and clubs of Raleigh. As with years prior, hair of the dog, ear plugs and good shoes helped me through the non-stop club hop and jive, through in the end I still felt more dead [...]
Living at the Outer Banks does wonders for the soul.
Beach sand and salt spray however; does no wonders for a clean camera, so it mostly stayed at the house.
[...]

