In the spring of this year, I had the chance to photograph Terry Hope Romero for the Greenpoint-based vegan food blog, Kitchen La Bohème. Terry is the author of a number of popular vegan cookbooks including Viva Vegan! and Veganomicon, and writes the colorful Vegan Latina! blog. Follow this link to read Kitchen La Bohème’s …
Books
DRIVEN FEATURING ANDERSON & ROE
Yesterday I received my advance copy of Driven in the mail. Written by Nick Romeo, Driven ‘tells the stories of six incredible young musicians creating a life in music in the modern world…from the slums of Ukraine to the halls of Manhattan’s elite Juilliard School.’ Each of the musicians featured made their national broadcast debut …
TOKYO JUXTAPOSED FOR JAPAN DISASTER RELIEF
One year ago, I self-published a photo magazine chronicling some of my travels through Tokyo and had a small exhibit at Supercore in Brooklyn. One year later, much of northeastern Japan has been ravaged by one of the largest earthquakes on record, and by the ensuing tsunami. I’d like to donate all proceeds from any …
THE SGB BOOK CLUB: SAVING DAYLIGHT BY JIM HARRISON
Earlier this week, I picked up a book of poems by Jim Harrison called Saving Daylight. Good friend of former Poet Laureate Ted Kooser (with whom he published a book of, shall we say, correspondence poetry entitled Braided Creek), Harrison is best known commercially for penning the novella Legends Of The Fall in 1979, from …
PERISHABLES: A CULINARY CULTURE COLLECTION
I’ve spent the last few days putting a new photography portfolio together, the gastronomically-themed Perishables. The goal was to incorporate plated food shots, establishment interiors and atmospheres, chef and restauranteur portraits, and a hint of travel/destination photography under the overarching banner of a food lifestyle collection. Culinary culture, I like to call it. You can preview …
‘TOKYO JUXTAPOSED’ FOR THE HOLIDAYS (AND THE WIN!)
Q. What could possibly make for a better Christmas gift than a copy of Tokyo Juxtaposed? A. Fruitcake. Oh. Right. … Tokyo Juxtaposed, my self-published ‘zine chock full of aesthetic and cultural photographic juxtapositions from my early summer jaunt to the land of the rising sun, is still available for purchase over at MagCloud. And …
WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME: GEORGE WENDT
Photographed Norm Peterson George Wendt recently for Crocmedia and Ralph magazine, an Australian men’s periodical. It was a challenging shoot- having only about 40 minutes of George’s time, at least half of which needed to be used to conduct an interview concerning Mr. Wendt’s recently released book about, well, beer. On top of the time …
REBEL INK AT THE FREAK BAR
Below is a shot from an impromptu, ‘in-house’ portrait session that I did earlier this summer for Rebel Ink magazine’s launch party at the Coney Island Freak Bar. It was a humid summer night filled with friends, beer, tatts, more tatts, and, um, some guy hammering nails into his nose and a girl breathing fire …
‘TOKYO JUXTAPOSED’ NOW AVAILABLE
I’ve recently self-published a magazine through MagCloud entitled Tokyo Juxtaposed. The issue contains juxtapositions of photographs that I took while aimlessly wandering around Tokyo (dérive, anyone?), many of which can be seen in the Travel portfolio on my website. I’ve included a few extra diptychs in the magazine in order to ensure its limited edition …
CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY
During my recent trip to Japan, I spent some time browsing the photography aisles of a few fine art book stores in Shibuya. My knowledge of contemporary Japanese photography was quite limited prior to my trip although I was fortunate enough to see an excellent retrospective last year at the International Center of Photography on …
