Recent landscape work from the Louisiana Gulf

New Work from the "Book Farm" at the Tyson Studio

These are some of the latest winter crop from my "book farm" at my studio at Tyson. These books, planted last summer, have been working their way back into the earth. This project is an outgrowth of my Lost library portfolio, done after hurricane Katrina.

New work from the Bywater project

This last trip to New Orleans I was able to spend some time walking the Bywater with my Lumix GF-1. It all adds to the larger body of work documenting the architecture of the Bywater neighborhood. I've been using the Lumix as a lightweight sub for my D3x, sometimes the big Nikon is just a little too much camera to carry around all day, especially with your also tethered to a 85 lb German Shepherd.

New Louisiana landscape work

Xmas in the neighborhood

Taken Christmas eve with my GF-1.

Grand Isle, Louisiana

I will able to get down to Louisiana and make some new landscape work. These are from Grand Isle, and yes, there is still oil on the beaches there.

Ruben Israel, street preacher

1994 Canal Street

1999 Canal Street

1998 Canal Street

1997

1996 Canal Street

1995 Canal Street

I started photographing Mardi Gras in 1990, and in 1994 I made a portrait of a man carrying a banner and street preaching. We talked a bit, and I asked if I might make his portrait, he agreed and I sent him a copy. His name is Ruben Israel, from Southern California and he is a self proclaimed Street Preacher. Since 1994 I have made his portrait at Mardi Gras. This month finds me scanning old negative files before the film faded too seriously to allow good scans, and I cam across some of Rubens portraits.