I never cared much for sports involving men or women racing to reach a ball and then to get it through the net or into the goal. Sure, it requires concentration, skill, and very often, teamwork, but is that all there is to athleticism?. In sports where participants are racing against each other; it becomes [...]

I have never been to Ethiopia, and, before today, I never wanted to go at all. All that changed when I stumbled across Joey Lawrence’s Abyssinia series. Much has been covered of the nation in the media; the lingering image in my head is that of the 1985 famine: starving children with bloated [...]

I own up: I really thought much of the entire continent of Africa (with the exception of South Africa), revolved around civil wars, overpopulation, famine, bloated malnourished children, widespread AIDS, and, of course, safaris. Surely a place so ravaged by misfortunes could not foster and nurture the needs of a contemporary photographer – one who [...]