2024
The global challenges and crises that are piling up as we enter 2024 are a sobering reminder that there is no guarantee that the things we value, or at least aspire to - truth, decency, democracy, tolerance, simple kindness - will prevail.
They are not - will never be, regardless of the consolations and promises of religious faith and political dogma (left-wing or right-wing, take your pick) - a done deal, an achieved state. Who knew? They always will be work in progress, and sometimes, instead of progress, there will be regression, confusion, even chaos.
So the struggle goes on, as it must and has to. Happy New Year, my friends!
Havana Reconsidered
Revisiting the photographs from this trip, almost eight years later, I see that my eye and my camera saw much more, and with more empathy and curiosity, than my more critical and judgmental mind did at the time. The photographs in this series, then, are a reconsideration, both aesthetically and imaginatively, of my earlier portfolio and of our Havana visit.