Olga Bell

Recently I had the good fortune to photograph the lovely and talented Olga Bell.  She is a singer/musician I think you are going to hear a lot about soon.  

Claire, New York City, 3/20/12

I met Claire through my projects with One Kings Lane a couple months ago and asked her if I could come back and take a few pictures of her home. Claire has amazing collections of dishes, flatware and lots of other household items and she has secret ways to get almost anything you can think of. She and her husband are consummate New Yorkers, in a wonderful apartment in Chelsea, where they have lived for 40+ years. We reminisced about a New York before Starbucks, 9/11, Tourists, Giuliani, and being able to walk around at night without fear.

Claire

Land-line

Party at Chez Madorsky, 4/21/12

You should click on this to make it bigger.  Who doesn't bring a flash kit to a party?

Sunlight

I purchased a marvelous new camera recently.  It can shoot movies.  I wish I could show you where I was today, but it is for a book project to be published later this year.  Headed to Maine tomorrow.

Maria

TONIGHT

Come check out my installation LADIES WE LOVE at Annabelle at 105 Stanton Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Annabelle is the boutique of designer Anna McCraney and a friend of mine. The installation will be up for several months so if you can't come by tonight, stop by another day. You can't miss it.

Nighthawks

Here is an assignment that is close to my heart. I went to this school for 12 years, and it just keeps getting better.

Christmas outtakes

Working Life: Tamara Magel

Recently I had the pleasure to work with a New York designer named Tamara Magel. So I asked her if she would be a part of my ongoing series about Work.

Proverb of the Day

72. Smiles wait at the end of patience

(from Proverbs of the Sene-Gambian)
This is my apartment hunting mantra. I've seen the pitbulls and grime, now it's time for the glory.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans

Proverb of the Day

I started packing today. I don't know where I am going, but I definitely have to leave this place. While going through my books I found the little book of "Proverbs of the Sene-Gambia" that I found in the shelves at Camac in France this past June. I have no idea how it got all the way back to New York. But I know you have really missed the Proverbs of the Day. Calm down.

152. Better say earlier that you are afraid to go on the roads alone than going half way only to return to ask for company.

I agree with that. I love company. And if you had seen the terrifying apartment I did tonight you would agree we all need a little help from our friends.

Sisters

I went down to Zuccotti Park today with Sarah, but I didn't take any pictures. We walked all around the neighborhood, zigzag-ing through the tourists and endless barricades, police and horses. History and the passing of time are the themes that occupy my mind, especially today when we were walking through the tent city. There have been tent cities in New York before. I hazily remember Tompkins Square Park as a kid, and Central Park was filled with people struggling to make it through the depression in the early 1930s. I wonder how history will remember the people down in the park now? I can't say I really understand the message, but my thoughts are with them as the nights get longer and the frost sets in.

I will say this, it is a great country that lets such voices be heard. These freedoms have not been lightly won, and they are to be cherished. There are many places in the world today were you can and would be killed for much less. Here are two sisters, ancestors of mine on my grandmother Roys Jeffris' side of the family. "Aunt Hart" from Connecticut on the left and "Grandmother Roys" on the right. These are probably from the 1860s. Many voices were left out of the political conversations back then, and in the wide eye of history, that was 15 minutes ago.

Working Life WALL OF FAME: Michael Bloomberg

Bloomberg sent me a signed picture, which is going right up on my wall, right next to my framed notice of jury exemption until 2017. Thank you Mr. Mayor!