Last week was my birthday. I love birthdays. It is a chance to celebrate someone when, so often, we fail to do so. To be honest my husband and I don’t celebrate birthdays much. We say that we celebrate each other all the time, so there is no real need. But nonetheless, I love birthdays because of how reflective they make us. We think about our lives in terms of years, and we often find a way to define a…
As many of you know, I travel to Kolkata, India each year to work with survivors of human trafficking and abuse. I teach photography and storytelling in an effort to show how we are all connected by the stories we share. This year, I am taking this one step further by opening a photography training program. Last year I asked for your help in raising money for the program, and we raised about $20,000 to start the school. This has…
Two things happened this week. 1) I realized I had way too many dresses compared to the amount of closet space (case in point, the trunk of my car has become extra storage). 2) I realized I could raise a little more money for the school I’m helping to create in India (watch the video about it below!) if I sold some of those dresses. VIEW THE COSTUMES ON EBAY! If you’d like to bid on any of these, all…
I have some new exhibitions opening in the month of March and I wanted to share in case you can make it. I will be attending one of them (boo! wish I could go to each!) and if you do go, snap some pics for me! Art Gallery AFK: Staging and Revelation, Group Show Lisbon, Portugal March 7-April 12 This show is going to be an absolute delight, this I already know…and I’m definitely not talking about my own work,…
I know that I can’t say in so many words what the video already does, but let me give this a short try. My life was changed last year when I visited Kolkata, India. I taught photography to survivors of human trafficking with emphasis on storytelling and confidence. We did self-portraiture and learned about the importance of finding your own voice and using art to tell it. After that experience I felt something was missing, and with the beautiful idea…