This is a photograph that has haunted me. During the street fighting with police and demonstrations for a change of government in Ecuador in 2000, I had been hanging with a group of young boys who where doing most of the front line fighting. We were heavily tear gassed by […]
Ecuador has elected a new leftist president, Rafael Correa. The final tally of votes may take weeks , but he has already declared victory. According to a Voice of America report ” Rafael Quintero of Central university of Quito says Sundays vote shows “Mr. Correa’s agenda for sweeping changes within […]
The premier of the film “War Made Easy” in Northampton , MA on Friday was an amazing event. Kudos to everyone who worked on the film. They skillfully showed us how our government’s propaganda machine of past and present administrations has made war seem inevitable, acceptable and justified. Good old […]
I have been to five funerals this year. Yet, I can only imagine what the people in Iraq are going through as they deal with the effects of the war day after day. This is an image I shot at a funeral in Matagalpa Nicaragua in the mid 1980’s during […]
This is the crew of War Made Easy hard at work at The Media Education Foundation: Co- writers and directors Loretta Alper, Jeremy Earp, and editor Andrew Killoy. This is an important film and if you live within 500 miles of Northampton you should cancel everything and make your way […]
I shot this picture of Abby years ago outside the court house in Northampton MA during the CIA on trial project . Shortly after the trial, I attended his funeral after he had taken his life. It was with great sadness that Northampton gathered yesterday for the funeral of his […]
Thursday evening the happy valley turned out in force for a benefit concert at Mt Holyoke college. to raise money for Chris Haynes son Sammy. It was a great night for a tragic event. Haynes wife, Heather Egen, passed away shortly after Sammy’s birth. Chris is a fine musician and […]
