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Embracing the discomfort of uncertainty, while viruses invade my mind and body.
A photographer’s notes on seeing men, the eros of presence, and the perils of being the perfect stranger.
At midlife, finding courage to grieve. Essay first published in german @ IP / Integrale Perspectives.
What I have been up to lately: The launch of the 100% Foreign Project and Exhibit in Aarhus, Denmark,
Does Greta Thunberg’s climate spanking merely make us willing subordinates — celebrating our grief — instead of becoming true climate heroes?
“Together, in page after page of seamlessly interwoven layouts, Embody’s words and images transcend gender, transcend the taboo of nudity, even transcend the staid, predictable format of the coffee table book – it transcends all things that divide and separate us and lay bare the naked truth of the things that do tie and bind us all together.”
#BookNotes: Embody has taken flight, I’m eating ice cream and swimming in the harbor in Copenhagen, while digesting the experience and some of the responses it has elicited from my book tour in USA and Denmark.
The nuts, bolts and unexpected challenges of launching your own book in Denmark and the U.S.
As my next book is going into press, I'm reflecting on the elephantine, at times painful, yet perfect path to the final book: A book has it's own internal intelligens. And birthing it, is a community effort.
Sometimes we do things backwards. Or just late. After the fact. To see what we've done all along.
Introducing the Seeing Men Project: After more than a decade of zooming in on women's relationship to body, image, beauty, sexuality and self-expression, I turn my lens on men. Do Men want to be seen? Do they need to see themselves?
Certain people you cannot refuse. Hans Ravnskjær is one of them. He invited me to share my Ignite Story at a recent Internet Week event in Aarhus, the hook...I had 5 minutes to say it all.
The mountain is shrouded in the mist, your gait is slow and your breath deep. All you hear is the gentle sound of cow bells and occasional chirps of birds and critters. One moment the trail ahead is illuminated...
Lately, I've noticed all the ways the body is used in the battle for something else...
I’m so excited to share that the Unveiled book project is featured in the new issue of Model Society Magazine. Yeah! It's been a joy to collaborate with David Bolt and team.
This piece is bleeding. For someone who likes to conjure and contribute grace and beauty, I find this hard to share ...
Dreams come true: Rachel was trying to get pregnant and kept seeing herself on the beach in bikini, her belly blossoming and baby on the way. We came full circle with this shoot...
Susan William's tells the truth about Robin William's death to People's Magazine, with one of my photos showing the love between them.
The lens helps me get under the skin, so to speak, of pretense and postures, all the ways we hide, and touch the trembling aliveness within.
On writing Seeing Red and the evolution of both story and author over time.
Bold and bare balloon ladies bring levity to the quest for freedom...
A fascination with the light drew me to black and white photography...
After 20 years I've returned to my Nordic roots. I feel like a stranger in a strange land...
What the painted lady knew, and I had yet to learn.
In 2009 I returned to Nepal to complete the pilgrimage that started a decade earlier, at Mt. Kailas in Tibet, and pay tribute to Kali.
All my adventures and creative projects have been ignited by a magical element that, at first, made no sense.
My initiator stood before me in a long purple velvet rope, her hands grasping the ornate handle of a kickass sword.
While battling the Corona Blues, I’m busy plotting my personal post-pandemic Belle Epoque. Are you not?