a clean slate is something inestimably beautiful.


after a most traumatic 2008, i had the extreme fortune of getting just that in 2009.

i packed up and abandoned a self badly in need of repair for a personal renaissance in, appropriately, italy.

another new language, fascinating new people, life-changing new love, daunting new doors. 



cities visited: los angeles, barstow, dublin, london, florence, rome, barcelona, venice, viareggio, siena, pisa, denver, milan, chicago.

florence, italy

july

maria nº1 (see the gallery here)

leica d-lux 4


maria from denmark is one of my very favorite people to photograph.

venice pinhole nº36 (see the series here)

leica d-lux 4


a bald gondolier slips under my camera in venice’s grand canal.

venice, italy

may

squid ink pasta

canon xsi


tag, maria and erik.

florence, italy

april

on peut pas me chausser les bottes

canon xsi

albuquerque, new mexico

january

florence, italy

december

goats

leica d-lux 4


from a shoot styled by valentina ilardi.

dries

nikon d40


from a shoot at F&P and friends studio.

florence, italy

september

colazione

leica d-lux 4


italian breakfast.

florence, italy

june

swedish

canon xsi

florence, italy

april

catalunya by foot

canon xsi, minolta z1

barcelona, spain

april

casita

broken/found 1980s konika 35mm


a test snapshot on a found old camera inside an abandoned house in velarde.

out of an entire roll of film, this was the only exposure to produce a visible image, with what seems to be a slight double exposure.

velarde, new mexico

august

pelle

leica d-lux 4


workers at a bespoke leather tannery take the first step in making french cows into italian leather.

fucecchio, italy

may

florence, 1924

leica d-lux 4


self-portrait in my bedroom, via degli alfani

florence, italy

june

kartell

leica d-lux 4


prismatic plastic.

florence, italy

october