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Photo Book Review of "Parasomnia"

I Review Viviane Sassen’s Parasomnia in Photo-eye Magazine

Great news!

Prints from my photography project “333 Saints: Life and Scholarship in Timbuktu, Mali” are now in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution; National Museum of African Art, Eliot Elisofon Photo Archives.

Some Trees I Met Last Year: 2

Some Trees I Met Last Year: 1

From "Romanticism" by Norbert Wolf

p6 "The term [Romanticism] covered a range of ideas: that nature was informed with the divine spirit and that the individual human imagination could immerse itself in the universal fabric; but also that the creative mind, being profoundly solitary, would yearn for harmony between man and nature."

Update from Mali

More difficult news from Mali.

Las Conchas Fire, Summer 2011, New Mexico

From the Noh play 'Takasago'

Translation by Royall Tyler

"'For indeed, as Chono wrote,

'All being, feeling or non-feeling,

have a voice, and that voice is a song.'

Plants and trees, soil and sand,

wind sounds and water noises:

in each one the spirit harbours all things."

Amsterdam, Fall 2011

NEWS in the NEW YEAR

Sorry for the long silence!

I hope to have some new fun photos up in the next week.

Here’s an update about some recent accomplishments:

Currently in Santa Fe, New Mexico

01/18/12 - 03/06/12

A photograph from the 2010 Shikoku Henro is on display at the '5th Annual Juried Plastic Camera Show', RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, CA

12/08/2011

Two photographs for the article 'Ronan, Kind ohne Zukunft,' were published in Zeit Magazine Nr. 50-2011

Notes From a Dragon Mom

A story worth reading.

Also my first photo in the Times

Work in Auction for Earthquake Victims

I have a small photo from my Japan work in a benefit auction / group show in Chelsea: "Till All Is Green"

To view/participate in the online action:

1. Go to www.32auctions.com

2. Click "View an Auction"

3. Auction ID: tillallisgreen; Auction password: japan

or attend the silent auction on Thurs. Oct 20th 6-9pm!

Proceeds of the auction go to help children who have been affected by the 3/11 Japan earthquake.

BIG NEWS!!

The new photographs from my Japanese pilgrimage are now on my website:

www.alexandrahuddleston.com

Blind Cat Valentine

Photo Book Review of "Mexico Roma"

Check out my newest photo book review on the Photo-Eye website.

I write about Graciela Iturbide's "Mexico Roma."

Tokyo Light

The Crows

Back to Posting Again

Sorry for the long silence.

I hope to post more regularly again, so keep checking the site.

日本 Photo

Photo Book Review of "New Documentary"

Check out my newest photo book review on the Photo-Eye website.

I write about Takashi Homma's "New Documentary."

From Keats “Ode on Melancholy”

“But when the melancholy fit shall fall

Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud,

That fosters the droop-headed flowers all,

And hides the green hill in an April shroud,

Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose,

Or on the rainbow of the salt sand-wave,

Or on the wealth of globed peonies;

Or if thy mistress some rich anger shows,

Emprison her soft hand, and let her rave,

And feed deep, deep upon her peerless eyes.”

Near Ghost Ranch

T. S. Eliot, "Religion and Literature"

"The reader of contemporary literature is not, like the reader of the established great literature of all time, exposing himself to the influence of divers and contradictory personalities; he is exposing himself to a mass movement of writers who, each of them, think they have something individually to offer, but are really working together in the same direction.... There never was a time, I believe, when those who read at all, read so many more books by living authors that books by dead authors; there was never a time so completely parochial, so shut off from the past."

Some Old Photos From the East Village

New Cover Photo

My website now has a new cover photo.

Check it out at www.alexandrahuddleston.com

A "Quickly passing world"

From "Awesome Nightfall; the Life, Times, and Poetry of Saigyo;" Translated by William LaFleur

P114

What a wretched place

This would be if this despised,

Quickly passing world

Had no place to hide away –

That is, no mountains in it.

Spring, last year...This year, waiting...

Fun with the Lomo 120 degree panoramic

From "Basho: The Complete Haiku"

The introduction by Jane Reichhold

p9 "Buddhist teachings and the poetry of Basho train us to search for the essence, the very being, of even the smallest, most common things. One of the goals of poetry is to penetrate this essence, to grab hold of it in words and pass it on to the reader, so purely that the writer as author disappears. Only by stepping aside, by relinquishing the importance of being the author, can one capture and transmit the essence -- the very is-ness -- of a thing. To do this takes both modesty and enormous confidence."

…that’s what Jimmy Page has isn’t it? And why he’s light years beyond most other guitarists: modesty and enormous confidence…