UNSPOKEN MOVEMENT
Filming with choreographer Kari Wolfe Borni, her horses Moon and Raven, and a group of dancers has me thinking about trust, attention and unspoken language. A first glimpse of a film taking shape.
Back at Snug Valley
Seventeen years after photographing Ben for The Boston Globe, I encountered his familiar face again during an assignment for the Intervale Center at Snug Valley Farm.
What we ask of a forest
There is something funny about having adults cram into a school bus. The narrow green seats, the watchful gaze of the driver, the one window left partially open… all of the details brought me back to childhood. Our destination was not school.
Isle au haut
Moving between forest and coastline on Isle au Haut, as fog swallowed the landscape and lobster boats worked somewhere offshore.
River time
An empty swimming hole, an overcast afternoon, and an hour that disappeared beside the river.
Turning Your Head In Nellieville
At Peter Beerits’s sculpture garden in Deer Isle, Maine, my kids knew exactly what to do. I was slower to catch on.
woodstock fog
A lesson from the fog about accepting what is given, and rediscovering the joy of wandering with a camera.
Root to rise farm
A recent photography commission of Root to Rise Farm in Guildhall, Vermont for the Intervale Center.
Tailored tombstones
An experimental doc short about a laid off iron worker who survived a near death experience and found success launching her own company cleaning tombstones.
Postcards from Maine
I returned with a Forestry degree after college and spent a summer working in the North Maine woods. I remember my boss, at the time, giving directions, “Drive to the top of New Hampshire, head North through Canada for two hours and then take a right into Maine” Needless to say, I saw many more bears than people that summer. In the years since, I have been fortunate to film and photograph for Yankee Magazine from Kennebunkport to Lubec. One winter I explored Caribou by snow machine, followed by a summer voyage on Moosehead Lake with Captain Rocky aboard the steamboat Katahdin.
Portraits with neighbors
I fell in love with photography all over again last week. Each spring there is a community picnic, and everyone contributes in some way... food, music, set-up and planning. It feels like a throw back and I enjoy getting to catch up with neighbors. When we first moved into the area, I offered to make portraits of everyone as a means of introduction. That was seven or eight years ago, and this year I decided to do it all again.
Farm Equipment auction
Every spring the field down the road from me slowly fills up with tractors and heavy equipment. Items are lined up for the Addison County Commission Sales annual machinery auction. Akin to seeing sap buckets, or tubing these days, it marks the changing of the season from winter to spring. This observational documentary explores the sights and sounds of this event.
Thoughts on place
I want to observe and create long term projects, extracting slivers of time that can speak to a certain familiarity and sense of place. Stephen Gill summarized this perfectly in the British Journal of Photography, “I realised that it’s all here. It’s all outside my house, and it’s also the biggest challenge,” he says. “To go somewhere unfamiliar, it’s exotic, and easy to make images. That was a language I never really tapped into. If you can latch onto your home environment, it’s unbelievable, you just have to look and absorb.” This sentiment inspired me, though it can also pose challenges because inevitably one's home environment can feel banal.