Crossing The Bridge
There’s a running joke among writer expats in Istanbul about the repeated clichés of the city. East meets…
January 8, 2016
December 2015
(Annually, I do a full-year round-up… but this isn’t it. Instead, I post mine on January 29th, the…
January 4, 2016
Oops! That Was Slide Film
I usually put a fair amount of thought into the film I’m shooting. Unlike digital photography, which can…
December 10, 2015
The Istanbul Hotel Wes Anderson Would Love
I didn’t read the fine print. I have this terrible habit of visiting exhibitions in Istanbul just before…
December 4, 2015
November 2015
I often end these monthly round-ups with some variation of “where did this month go?” Not so for…
December 2, 2015
Strange Cappadocia on LomoChrome Purple
I shoot film to capture the way places feel, not the way they look. The emotion, the memory,…
November 17, 2015
Cappadocia Magic, Without Balloons
I wanted the cliché. Cappadocia, that wild region in central Anatolia, has an iconic image: hundreds of hot…
November 12, 2015
I Came for Buzludzha: An Abandoned Bulgarian Wonder
It was the pictures that caught my attention. A giant UFO-shaped Socialist monument on top of a mountain. …
November 9, 2015
Returning To Bulgaria
For a long time, the only country I’d ever say I truly disliked was Bulgaria. The last time…
November 5, 2015
October 2015
This was a strange month, where the first half was so good and the last half slipped away…
November 2, 2015