frozen in time
When I was a child, my mother worked as a seamstress. It was a fast-track to self-employment in Haiti. When she began studying the sewing course, she made patterns at home out of recycled paper and I thought they were the most enchanting things. It was probably just the novelty of seeing a perfect dress...
innovActor grace coddington
The September Issue chronicles how the magazine prepares the most important issue of the year. Grace Coddington who has been working at Vogue for over 30 years is a creative director.
before night falls
I remember when I found out in 8th grade art class that you could manipulate color. That they are all ripped off the primary colors. By combining and diluting you could make all kinds of shades and tints. The magic of nature in a bottle! {And now, in a pixel}
things summer left behind
I am not sure if it's the fact that I am listening to Florence + the Machine a lot {Florence has a dramatic and colorful style} or if it's the fact that I am re-reading Great Expectations that inspired me to make these photos. Because Ms. Havisham, a minor but cataclysmic character in Great Expectations, always reminds...
art inspiring art
Inspiration is a funny thing because it is so slippery. You can find it anywhere but you cannot always explain why it speaks to you. I am easily inspired because I am right brained person. I organize information by making connections between things.
thursday rhapsody: life’s a beach!
At least it is a beach in my daydreams! It's huffing hot out so I'm keeping the shades down. I think fondly of my air conditioning these days. It is just hitting me what a marvel air conditioning is. Another marvel is Massimo Vitali whose photos of bathers at the beach have me daydreaming as...
let’s get messy
I've made a huge mess. But I like it and I'll tell you why. I come from an immaculate household so I've always had a generous side-dish of guilt with respect to neatness. My mother always worked in nursing; neatness was an occupational quirk. She always seemed to be cleaning and asking me - which...
take 2
I just realized that it appears as though I'm doing some serious conditioning in these pictures. I didn't intend it to be that way. It's quite funny though. So here we go: STRETCH THE FOREARM This is professional work. Kids, don't try this at home. FLEX THE NECK MUSCLES This is essential so you can...
lemon: lemonade, rain: splashes
My first multiplicity ever! I love this technique because I can make more dynamic pictures when I only have myself as a subject. I love the way it turned out. But, naturally, as per Murphy's Law the day I planned to shoot this it rained so the light is not what I had hoped for but...
90s vibe
One of my college roomates used to paper the walls with catwalks. Long-limbed women striding in unwearable constructs. This is something I know many teenagers did back in the 90s. Paper the walls with magazine pictures, I mean. But I was surprised to find someone doing it in college. So I asked her about it...
light, laughter and peasant shoes
Little loves this week: loud creole at the Haitian embassy in DC, lessons about light with Rogier Van der Heide at TED, my latest book reads and video vacations in three minutes!
