Press Supervisor Arnold Wiggins, left, helps members of The...

What Happens Next

There’s a note to myself in the little Moleskin notebook I carry. “May 9: Need to...

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Downtown Austin at night, October 2006. Found this old 16x20...

The Breakup

I know I promised to avoid idle words and politics in this blogthing, but this is more of a creative...

Drew Smith in Washington, DC. I shot it, he toned it (for...

Three generations from left: Laura, her daughter and her...

The view from here

  Spending a week in Virginia with friend Drew, pictured above. By my count this town is a...

Marisela and one of the kids look at the photographs we...

Notes from Zacatecas: An epilogue

The man gesturing wildly in the street is shirtless; tattoos stretch across his chest and down his...

Notes from Zacatecas: La Família de...

  The photograph of Edelmira’s husband, fading yellow and white with age, sits in a place of...

Notes from Zacatecas: The Past

Weaving this wanderlust trail through Mexico’s mountains and roads, I try my best to remember...

Notes from Zacatecas: The Perils of...

A colleague of mine once spoke of a novel way of looking at documentary photography: documentary...

Notes from Zacatecas: A prologue

Immediately after the Mexico trip, I had meant to scan all my images and present something. I...

Horizontal shot of the courtyard of the chapel atop the hill...

Vertical shot of a cathedral, Zacatecas, Mexico. Sorry it...

Detail of a lectern, Zacatecas, Mexico. 

A church in Zacatecas. First in a series. 

Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business.

To be proud of America

Anti-war protest on 20 March 2003, the day after the invasion of Iraq. I don’t think...

Barack Obama in line at McDonald's

Barack Obama: Hi, can I get a number 10 meal with fries and an iced coffee?
Drive-thru voice: You can't get that with coffee, it comes with a soft drink or a bottled water.
Obama: Yes we can.
Drive-through voice: Come again?
Obama: We're coming upon a defining moment in the history of this great nation. So many things that once seemed impossible seem now to be within our reach. So as you stand there and say that we cannot have iced coffee, I say, "Yes we can."

Not quite liveblogging, but...

I brought my laptop to the Obama rally. Around my neck, easy, left a hand for my camera and another...

Jesse James Mansfield, in blue, and James Haecker, in red,...

Presidential hopeful Barack Obama at a rally on Congress...

Obama backers listening to the candidate’s speech,...

Politics, hope and humanity

Yeah, yeah, I know. More words on the photo blog. But like I said, sometimes I get moved and I...

“You make your choice, you cast your lot, and you learn to...”
— Me, to a Starbucks barista in...

Attendees at a rally for Senator Barack Obama shoot...

Looking for old audio just now, I ran across this scan dated...

“Superdelegates are not second-class delegates. The real...”
— Joel Ferguson, co-chairman of...

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Supporters of Senator Barack Obama at the opening of his...

The ones we [ha]ve been waiting for...

I don’t often write letters to politicians. And this isn’t even a letter to a...

You go to war with the camera you’ve got.

Cover mockup. It wraps around, such that one side is the...

Illustration for “Fresh Thoughts” magazine...

more politics

Listening to the Hillary Clinton camp, the bar keeps moving higher and higher. Earlier in the...

Presidential candidate Barack Obama addressed this crowd in...

Polaroid closes remaining film plants

Megan Shelby circa Spring 2007. This was the first...

A woman enters the church of Nuestra Señora de Fátima....

a song for the shuttle

The space shuttle is taking off right now. Summers back, I wrote a poem on the occasion of the...

 A building in Zacatecas. The statue is an angel breaking...

“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”
— Barack Obama, in Illinois, or,...

An overall view of the city. 

Clothes on the line, Zacatecas, Mexico.

Edelmira, the abuela (that means grandmother) in the...

Marisela, from Zacatecas.

Nene, from Zacatecas.

Steps by a school in Zacatecas.

Ever since the Mexico trip, I’ve been wearing this dog-tag my sister made me. I don’t...

Processing film. Agitation time!

“You wanna know what the early ’60s were like? It was...”
— Chris Matthews on MSNBC

The public library in Zacatecas. Originally built as a...

Nick Mery, musician.