Good Job America!
Christine King Farris, Martin Luther King Jr.’s sister, reacts to the news at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia (couldn’t find the credit)
The above photograph is one of my favorite images from the wires. Ms. Farris’ expression embodies the same combination of wonder and disbelief I felt watching CNN officially call the election for Obama [...]
And Now for Something Completely Different II
On my recent trip to London, I had the great fortune of spending some time with a few admired and celebrated poets from Africa who were on tour in the UK with the Poets in Translation group which has recently funded the translation of their work into English. Here are two of my favorite portraits:
Asaddiq [...]
And Now for Something Completely Different I
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum recently acquired a photo album compiled by Karl Hoecker, an adjutant to Richard Baer, the Auschwitz camp commander. The album was discovered in Frankfurt by a US intelligence officer in 1946, who hid it from the public until last year when he handed it over to the museum. Some of [...]
