Escape from Tolkemit (Video)
In January 1945, the cameras captured Tolkemit, East Prussia, as the Soviet army advanced and the town burned. Less than a month earlier, my mother fled her hometown—leaving behind the family, neighbors, and the familiar shoreline of the Vistula Lagoon she had known all her life. This rare footage shows the place she once called […]
Click, Click, Bloom Photography
I took this photo years ago in my dining room, which became a makeshift laboratory of light, water, color and obsession. I was chasing light and reflection. Not the metaphorical kind but actual, shimmering, unpredictable, light-bending reflection. I contrived directional lighting from household lamps that I positioned to bounce the light just so. I taped […]