Juliano’s Raw
If you think that a raw food diet is very limited in taste, think again. Juliano Brotman has revolutionized raw food. Eating at Planet Raw is eating like a king, and not just because the Hollywood “royalty”, like Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman, eat there, but because the food is finger-licking. The first time I visited [...]
Justin Halpern Portrait
I was commissioned by Random House Germany to photograph Justin Halpern, author Sh*t My Dad Says, and screenwriter of the TV show by almost the same name… Almost, because you cannot curse on TV, so Sh*t becomes $#*!. Go figure. I see Justin’s dad as a philosopher, with great truths such as: “Everyone thinks their [...]
Don DeLillo
I love making people comfortable when I take their photo. With Don DeLillo I almost didn’t have a chance to prove myself. I traveled all the way from California to New York to do a number of photography and video assignments, but the famous author was definitely a highlight. Carlos Fresneda, Bureau Chief for El [...]
Storytellers
Amy Tan said during our interview that she didn’t like to be called an author, that it seemed way too serious of a word. It’s a term that seems to be reserved for dead people and she was very much alive, still. Some of the writers I had the honor of photographing have passed away [...]
EcoHeroes Project @ Gallery 7000, press release.
EcoHeroes Project Photography exhibit honors local and international environmental leaders (Sept 15, 2010 – Santa Barbara, CA) In 1969 the Santa Barbara community confronted an environmental catastrophe, an oil spill, which sparked the birth of Earth Day a year later. To celebrate 40 years of solutions and forward thinking, Mercury Press International is proud to [...]
Interview Sylvia Earle / Entrevista Sylvia Earle
Dr. Sylvia Earle is a mermaid. She became on when she was pushed down by a wave a the age of three. Carlos Fresneda and I interviewed her in the San Francisco Bay Area. The interview was published in Yo Dona in Spain and in El Mundo’s website with the headline, “All the damage that [...]
Interviewing writer Gay Talese / Entrevistando al escritor Gay Talese
What a great time we had chatting with Mr. Talese, and taking his portrait at his home in New York. He’s a very sweet and talented man, who doesn’t use the Internet at all, and still types with an electronic typewriter. The story was published in El Mundo, Spain, in the printed edition, and is [...]
The Green Anarchist / El Anarquista Verde
Profil magazine in Austria (profil.at) will be publishing a story on man an nature, for which they’re using a portrait I took of John Zerzan. Zerzan, the green anarchist, says that without the anarchists nobody would remember the protests in Seattle ten years ago, the Battle in Seattle. He’s l´enfant terrible of philosophers, having supported [...]
Everyday is Woman’s Day / Día de la Mujer Todos los Días
International Woman’s Day is on the 8th of March, but it should also be on the 9th, 10th, 11th.. every day. One of the great women in this world is Zainab Salbi, founder of Women for Women International, whom I had the pleasure of photographing a couple of years ago. Salbi, daughter of Saddam Hussein’s [...]
The Kiss of the Spider / El Beso de la Araña
Carlos Fresneda and I recently traveled to UC Riverside to photograph Cheryl Hayashi, an expert in the genetic structure of spider silk (See her website here). The story was published in El Mundo’s new science/nature section, named Eureka. We played with a pink tarantula (Grammostola Rosea) and talked about the amazing characteristics of spider silk, [...]