I love working with digital photos. I think that a big part of this has to do with the fact that I’m extremely allergic to photographic chemistry. I think that it’s specifically the fixer (formaldehyde). When I wrote my master’s thesis in the early 1980′s–before … Read More →
Monthly Archives: March 2008
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Cinema Therapy In 2003 I told my friend Birgit Wolz about my ideas on Capturing the Soul. She’s a therapist who loves photos. I thought about working with her to develop workshops on looking at photos. She told me about wanting to work with movies … Read More →
Sorting through Amy’s photos
I spent a few hours today looking through boxes of my sister Amy’s photos. I boxed them up two years ago when my older sisters and I packed up her house after her death. I hadn’t looked at them since. What made me open the … Read More →
Getting Started
Capturing the Soul The idea for Capturing the Soul came after I began sorting through the over 10,000 photos my father took in his lifetime. He got his first camera when he was fifteen and his family lived in Phoenix. There are no photos of his family prior to that. He … Read More →
Family History, not genealogy
Often when I tell people I’m interested in family history they take it to mean genealogy. I’m not interested in that at all. I have three Mormon cousins, (my father’s brother Jerry’s wife Merilyn is Mormon) who have eighteen children between them, to take care … Read More →