Photography and …

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Coursework this week is to consider what discipline I feel photography of any kind has a particularly interesting or relevant relationship to. I would like to look at photography’s relationship to scientific and engineering research, and perhaps even more importantly, to education in general, through the work of Felice Frankel. When I first met Felice, almost 20 years ago, she was …

Other than … Year Zero

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In April 1994, Ingrid and I first visited Cambodia, with our three youngest children. Michala was 6, Victoria was 4, and Dan was just over 1  year old. At that time, we lived in Japan, and had flown into Phnom Penh from Hanoi. We were just tourists, enjoying discovering new places with the kids. From Phnom Penh we flew up …