Galleries
Environmental Singles
It seems efforts to shape Mother Nature to our own needs are often short sighted, riddled with mismanagement and loaded wih unforeseeable consequences. These images represent my evolving investigation into our ‘management’ of the natural world.
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- Salmon in 'mobile aquarium'. Oroville, CA.
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- Corn is irrigated in Fresno County with an overhead-pivot irrigation system.
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- Employees of the Feather River Fish Hatchery wait for a holding tank to be filled with fish before beginning salmon spawning operations on September 26, 2009.
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- Catch basins in Border Fields National Park trap sediment and trash as it flows downhill from Tijuana Canyons, towards the Tijuana River Estuary and the Pacific Ocean. August 18, 2010.
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- A tree rises from Indian Valley Reservoir, Lake County CA. November 8, 2009.
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- Taking off waders after the Bio-Blitz event in Jamaica Bay, Brooklyn, June 11, 2010. The Bio-Blitz connects New Yorkers to their nearby wild areas.
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- A secondary plant currently under construction at the Internation Border Water Comission's waste-water treatment facility will treat waste water in a biological process in addition to the chemical process currently in use. Curtis Howard unloads Ferrous Chloride, used in the chemical treatment process of the primary plant.
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- Maria del Rosario Urias, community leader in Colonia Los Laureles, Tijuana, MX.
Colonia Los Laureles, population approximately 80,000, is a shantytown settlement of mostly factory workers in the steep canyons along the US Border near Tijuana. A major source of pollution in the Tijuana River estuary below, community groups are partnering with US Agencies such as NOAA to clean up the canyon and prevent erosion. Maria del Rosario Urias is a leader of one such grassroots group that is planting trees along the cliffs.
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- Farm Technology, Fresno County
Red Rocks Ranch in California's San Joaquin Valley has invested in the latest water-saving technology, such as this center pivot overhead irrigation system. Investment in such technology may be a necessary part of future farming.
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- Early morning sport salmon fisherman on the Sacramento River. Knights Landing, CA.
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- Water is released into Putah Creek from Lake Berryessa, in Solano County, California.
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- Pedro Garcia moves siphon tubes to flood irrigate a field of Alfalfa near Discovery Bay, in the San Joaquin Delta, on April 29, 2009, Flood irrigation is the least efficient method of irrigating, in terms of both water consumption and crop yield.
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- Steve Smullen, Area Projects Manager for the International Border Water Comission San Diego, poses for a portrait at the IBWC waste-water treatment facility near the Mexican Border. August 18, 2010.
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- A passing construction truck kicks up dust along the Owens Dry Lake. In 1913 the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power diverted the Owens River to provide drinking water for the rapidly growing metropolis. Ten years later the Owens Lake had completely evaporated, along with any hope of heavy development in the region. Now DW&P is entering the tenth year of a dust mitigation project on the lake, part of a lawsuit settlement between the utility and the residents of the valley, whose health was being damaged by particles blown off the lake by the constant winds.
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- Ken Emigh, Damtender for Solano County Irrigation District, outside of Monticello Dam on March 24, 2010.
The Life Outside
Herbert Gains is a 71 year old homeless man, who resides in San Francisco’s Western Addition neighborhood. Problems with alcohol led to a divorce with his wife about a decade ago. “I don’t want to be a burden on nobody,” Gains says, ” [and] I don’t want nobody to bring me no burdens.”
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- Herbert Gains is a 71 year old homeless man, who resides in San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhood. Problems with alcohol led to a divorce with his wife about a decade ago. "I don't want to be a burden on nobody," Gains says, " [and] I don't want nobody to bring me no burdens."
Gains (center, back) approaches his friends Charlie, who is also homeless and survives in the Western Addition by collecting and selling recyclables, on March 16, 2008.
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- Gains brushes his hair, on February 25, 2008.
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- Passed out drunk in a Laundromat on Sunday afternoon, March 16, 2008.
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- Neighbors often bring Gains food or give him a little money, which he never asks for and graciously accepts. March 6, 2008.
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- More to pass the time than for money, Gains paints pictures on bits of cardboard he finds, and sells them on the street.
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- Gains and Charlie spend an afternoon sharing booze and stories, on March 2, 2008.
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- Gains uses the local bus to get around town when he needs to.
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- Gains spreads out some sleeping bags in a parking lot before bed, on March 16, 2008.
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- After gains hurt his ankle, he had to wrap the cast in plastic bags to prevent it from getting wet in case of rain.
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- Gains crosses Grove Street on March 6, 2008. People who know him worry about what the future will bring.
Born HIV+
The devastation and pain that HIV causes families has been well documented. However, what is not frequently realized is how the virus can be passed to children and continue to threaten families and strain finances. In Mexico, less than one quarter of pregnant women can access medication to prevent transmission to their child. This series of images is a portrait of one such family.
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- Teresa's brother, Kevin's uncle, is an alcoholic and lives on the streets of their neighborhood in Peralvillo. During a chance meeting near a market, he gives kevin a toy. July 9, 2008.
Current Portfolio
Images from projects (past and present), singles and chance encounters that demonstrate my evolving visual approach and general aesthetic.
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- The Festival of the Magdalena is a two day annual party, which takes place in the neighborhood of Mixiuhca de la Magdalena in Mexico City. Here a neighbor sprints down a narrow street, trying to keep ahead of his exploding head-wear, on July 28, 2008.
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- A portrait of Don Covey, owner of Yuba City Florist in Yuba City, California. Photographed in his store on March 5, 2010.
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- Salmon in 'mobile aquarium', Oroville, CA.
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- Lydia Evans hugs her friend Samantha Carson, who was visiting from Utah to be with her Dad when he passed, just as Lydia was beginning her first chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer. The two have been close since kindergarten. June 6, 2010.
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- Volunteer paramedics pull a woman having a seizure from a taxi cab and place her on a stretcher in Mexico City, on July 12, 2008. She was taken to a nearby hospital.
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- Adolescents mosh during a punk rock concert in the Zocalo, Mexico City's central square, on June 13, 2008.
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- An outdoor basketball game in the neighborhood of West Oakland.
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- Returning for the first time after a victorious, year-long legal fight to overturn an illegal eviction notice in the center of gentrified Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Here, Peter Pawlak and Jarina Kulesza inspect water damage in their apartment, due to a leaking roof.
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- Wall Street, shortly after the closing bell. June 16, 2010.
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- A chicken is returned to it's coop near the California Hotel in West Oakland, at a farm operated by the local non-profit Peoples Grocery.
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- Kevin Damian, 6, is embraced by his Grandmother Teresa before bed in Mexico City. Kevin was born HIV+, and his mother died of AIDS four years ago. August 26, 2010.
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- Guadalupe Galvan waits by the lone tree on his property near Ejido Hermosillo, in the Sonoran desert of Northern Mexico. His wife Maria approaches after cutting plants to feed their goats, on August 27, 2007.
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- Residents enter the elevator of a a new loft development in West Oakland, California.
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- Taking off waders after the Bio-Blitz event in Jamaica Bay, Brooklyn, June 11, 2010. The Bio-Blitz connects New Yorkers to their nearby wild areas.
