Monthly Archives: October 2015
57. TRAVELS IN INDIA. Mumbai. Raw nature is beautiful; raw humanity no less so. India is so broad and so deep that photographs often exceed language as a medium to describe it.
56. TRAVELS IN INDIA. Goa. The Goa sea coast is what gets the attention (rightfully), but travelling the inland backroads is rewarding in a different way, especially during monsoon.
55. TRAVELS IN INDIA. Delhi. The Jama Masjid in Old Delhi, the largest mosque in India. Its construction began in 1644. Note the kids playing cricket on the grounds below. I have noticed that mosques and temples and churches in older parts of the world are community gathering places, rather than “do-not-touch” monuments. It makes them more, not less, spiritual.
54. TRAVELS IN INDIA. Mumbai. We were shooting at the Bhendi Bazaar for the documentary film “Who Killed Gandhi” when this scene caught my eye. A mundane moment, but it captures something of the astonishing visual complexity of urban India.
53. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Randall’s Island. Looking west under the Triborough Bridge. The bridge in the background to the right is where the Triborough crosses from Randall’s Island into Harlem at 125th Street.
52. NEW YORK ON FOOT. East Midtown, Manhattan. Looking across the East River from a rooftop.
51. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Downtown Brooklyn. The venerable Williamsburg Savings Bank Tower in the background. It seems odd that Brooklyn has a “downtown”, but Brooklyn was a distinct city for its first 250 years. Its merger with NYC was known by some as “the great mistake of 1898”. If it were not part of NYC, Brooklyn would be the third largest city in the country (behind LA and Chicago).
50. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Midtown Manhattan. One of the great “canyons” of New York. Lexington Avenue at 39th Street looking uptown .
49. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Red Hook, Brooklyn. It is easy to forget that New York City sits on an island archipelago. Looking west across Upper New York Bay towards New Jersey.
48. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Sutton Place, Manhattan. The odd little ramp off York Avenue and East 60th that gives access to the Bobby Wagner Walk, which heads uptown along the “shore” of the East River.
47. NEW YORK ON FOOT. Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The corner of Franklin Avenue and Eastern Parkway on a winter evening.