SF Chronicle

Arts of Fashion runway images made it into SF Chronicle today! 

Chile with Bessa

What struck me most about Chile is the importance of family, friends, and going with the flow. Keep it simple, and don't stress about things that don't matter. Thank you beautiful people for such a warm welcome. 

Backstage of the runway show

I can't deny it.. I love my bessa and I shoot differently with it. 

Arts of Fashion Runway Show

Shooting the Arts of Fashion/Art Institute runway show at the Bently Reserve last night was great. Not always easy to keep up with those quick models, but there were some incredible designs on the runway! 

In a private home

Thank you Cynthia for displaying my work in your gorgeous home! I'm honored to be amongst your incredible pieces of art! 

Tanya Bello

Tanya was so great to work with - she has such a beautiful quality of movement that is at the same time lifted but rooted, stable but full of release. Very elegant. Thank you Tanya. 

For a Happy French Scorpion

"Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in 'sadness,' or 'joy,' or 'regret.' Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic traincar constructions like, say, 'the happiness that attends disaster.' Or: 'the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy.' I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins with middle age.' I'd like to have a word for 'the sadness inspired by failing restaurants' as well as for 'the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.' "
- Jeffrey Eugenides from Middlesex


Great passage that hits the nail on the head. So true that these terse words hardly invoke the feelings they claim to. His more complex versions conjure up much more truth about feelings!