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Deb and I had the good fortune to cross paths with James because of the Blue Planet Run book and Redux Pictures. His images of China’s desertification caught our eye for the book (They didn’t make the final edit). But more than the subject of the photographs, it was the tone, the feeling and [...]
I sit in a 500-year-old patio where Pissarro prepared to conquer a chunk of South America. Classical music plays from speakers. Morning coffee and jugo de naranja just arrived. Palms jiggle in the morning breeze like a hula skirt. This is good. I’m waiting for Randy Olson or Melissa Farlow, Loup Langton or Lelen Robert or Maggie [...]
Tim Clayton is British but has lived in Sydney, Australia for many years. Is that a contradiction, or what? Contradiction may be in Tim’s nature. He was one of the first and few ever to create an independent sports photography staff at the Sydney Morning Herald. He is both wry and serious at the same [...]
Vince is one of the funniest guys you’ll ever meet. And one of the most serious. That balance of qualities has played out in his pictures since his days at the Pittsburgh Press. Since the Press’ demise in 1992, Vince has completed 10-ish stories for National Geographic, no small feat. He and his wife, Callie [...]
John Moore is a finalist for Nicest Guy On the Planet competition. O.K., there is no such thing but seriously, what a super guy. Mike worked with John at the Albuquerque Tribune (The Trib’s last day of publication was Saturday, February 23, 2008) close to 20 years ago and saw then that he was one [...]