Well, here is my once every other decade blog post.  I promise I'll try to get better and thanks to all of you who have written to make sure I am still alive :) For those of you in/near Chicago, I have a new exhibition that opened this past weekend and will run for five weeks.  I believe this marks my seventh year with the lovely people at ZIA Gallery  and this time we will be taking a break from the harsher photojournalism images and showing some "fine art" prints.  Here is a tiny preview: and yes, as far as I can tell I am still alive ..read more

 In the past fifteen years I have worked in 112 countries, often covering conflict, crisis and disasters.  The majority of the countries I have worked in have been extremely poor and one thing that always amazes me is people’s ingenuity.  Combine that ingenuity with the imagination of a child and you will often find that the poorer the country, the more interesting the children’s toys are.      While on a three year assignment for the Gapminder Organization I was given a chance to explore how people live.   The assignment was fascinating and you can rea ..read more

I left Paris four days ago and I am safe.  Thanks to all of you for your messages and concern.  My thoughts go out to all of my friends and family in Paris ..read more

A few images from a Halloween walk today in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. A cemetery walkway reflected back onto itself.   Tombstone   Fallen leaves on a stone sarcophagus.   Sunset in the cemetery   Sculpture on a sarcophagus    A bat on the door of tomb is reflected onto the interior   A woman walks through the cemetery to pay her respects ..read more

The Chernobyl Small Group Photography Workshop for this winter is official and due to a recent cancelation I have one spot left!  If you are interested you can contact us for more information or an application.  We will not only be photographing the abandoned landscape of Chernobyl but also spending time photographing the dwindling number of settlers who have come back to live out their final days in the Exclusion Zone. My Chernobyl workshops have become some of my most popular and this will truly be a once in a lifetime experience.   The abandoned swimming pool in Pripyat will ..read more