Room with a View, Cairo

I remembered the incredible feeling of visiting Cairo as photographer while working on the Berlin project.

This was the view from my room, down in the heart of everyday Cairo ...

Parastou Forouhar, Artist

I loved this temporary art installation, photographed in Berlin.

It was the work of Iranian artist, Parastou Forouhar.

Ali Kaaf, Artist

I remember photographing the remarkable artist, Ali Kaaf.

It was 2009 and he was exhibiting in Taswir – Islamische Bildwelten und Moderne, Martin-Gropius-Bau, in Berlin, Germany.

Taysir Batniji, "Voyage impossible", Berlin

I was fortunate enough to photograph Taysir Batniji, in his"Voyage impossible" performance, in Berlin back in 2009.

Today he wrote, asking if he might use some of those images for an exhibition in France, in April this year.  And it was so good to know that those photographs from that magical TASWIR Exhibition are still going out into the world.

Taswir - Univers iconographiques de l’Islam et modernité*, Martin-Gropius-Bau - Berlin, Germany

People Become Stories and Stories Become Understanding

I've spent the last few days researching, photographing, and writing up Monday's blogpost for Fans of Flanders.

I'm working on a series of interviews that are absolutely related to this blog's reason for being ... the whole people become stories and stories become understanding thing. 

With that in mind, I'll be talking to more than a few Flemish people I know over the next few months, taking some photographs and writing up stories because they're interesting people and because I love hearing people tell their stories.

Here's one of the images for Monday's blogpost.  I'll cross-post here once it's published.  Any ideas of what it might be ...?

Fiona's Dog, New Zealand