Vaitiare portrait session / Sesión de fotos con Vaitiare
Last week I had the pleasure of photographing actress Vaitiare Hirshon-Asars, whose book of memoirs, “Muñeca de Trapo: Mi Vida con Julio Iglesias” (Rag Doll: My Life with Julio Iglesias), comes out tomorrow, published by Ediciones B. Besides being an actress, she was Julio Iglesias’ girlfriend at one point. El Mundo newspaper in Spain ran [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]