Featured Image: Bisti Badlands
Alien spacecraft in a Star Wars landscape? A surreal setting in the Land of Mordor from Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings? Neither. These are stone wings in the Bisti Badlands, a little known desert region in…Continue Reading
Featured Image: Huangshan
Huangshan (or Yellow Mountain), located in remote southeastern China, is one of the most stunning destinations on the planet. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, this range of many unusual-shaped peaks rising above a sea of clouds creates an otherworldly…Continue Reading
Featured Image: Longsheng Rice Terraces
Longsheng Rice Terraces (The Dragon’s Backbone), Guangxi Province, China. In this era of women proving time and again that they are very much the equals of the males of our…Continue Reading
Irving Penn at the Met
The largest retrospective ever of the works of photographer Irving Penn (1917-2009) has just opened in April, 2017 at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City on the occasion of the photographer’s centennial. Penn is best known for the six decades…Continue Reading
Retrospective: Vik Muniz
The image is from Vik Muniz’s body of work called Postcards from Nowhere. Using many shredded postcards, he re-assembles the scraps to represent something entirely different, in this case, a panorama of Jerusalem. As Ben Brown Fine Arts gallery in Hong…Continue Reading
RED Digital Cinema in Miami
We attended the grand opening in Miami of RED Digital Cinema’s newest retail store—an exciting party that attracted many filmmakers.
The event occurred in Wynwood — Miami’s high-energy arts district that’s chock full of galleries as well as new restaurants, eclectic bars, antique shops and one of…Continue Reading
What’s a Photograph?
When the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York City recently opened the exhibit “What Is a Photograph?” the event stopped us in our tracks. Here was a museum whose mission historically was to celebrate the…Continue Reading