MCNY is using a brand new photograph of mine to promote their public programs responding to Sandy. I’m collaborating with good friend and fellow Rockaway resident, Jen Poyant, on a long-term look at the recovery, primarily through interviews and portraits. There will be some landscapes like this one to give context to the storms wrath. Stay tuned!

I met James Estrin from the New York Times Lens blog at Review Santa Fe this summer. After Hurricane Sandy he reached out and asked to run my Right Coast series, as a testament to what had been lost in the wake of the storm. David Gonzalez interviewed me amidst the personal chaos of the weeks following the storm and managed to transform my semi-coherent ramblings into some very eloquent quotes. The piece, “Recalling the Right Coast before the Storm” featured 18 photographs and I am very appreciative to James, David, and the Times for running them and for David’s kind and sensitive description of my work and our situation.

One more photo of my bb for one of the most tremendous women I have ever known. Thank you for your faith in my work, your kind and generous words about me as a photographer and a mother. Thank you BB, thank you.

My deepest sympathy for the three loves of your life.

Photographer Eric Cooper was nice enough to take a few snaps of me surfing some little groundswell runners the other day. It has been a few years since I saw photos of myself on waves (the last ones were by Eric also) and I’m not totally horrified.