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 [...]
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, [...]