Fear & Self-Loathing in Las Vegas: the full story, revisited (again)
Back in 2011, Zach Baron and I retraced the delirious footsteps of Hunter S. Thompson through Las Vegas — he wrote, I shot. This is our dispatch from the desert, where the American Dream once burned bright, then got weird.
Photobook Recommendations: The Uncomfortable Intimacy Edition
Three photobooks that blur the line between intimacy and intrusion, by Antoine d’Agata, Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie, and Sandra S. Phillips.
Inside Swans: photographing Michael Gira for The New Yorker
Photographing Michael Gira for The New Yorker was an honor, but it was what happened after the shoot that I’ll never forget: a quiet room, an acoustic guitar, and a new Swans song, played just for two.
PDN on FUCKING NEW YORK: Eroticism, architecture, and absurd love
Published yesterday, Photo District News featured FUCKING NEW YORK with a write-up that caught the tone exactly right: surreal, sensual, a little unhinged. Getting this kind of recognition — from a publication I’ve long respected — means a lot, especially for a project this provocative.
Animal NY magazine on FUCKING NEW YORK: “New York: City I’d Like to Fuck”
“He makes pressing your breasts at a window look eloquent, enchanting. Hmm. Hmmmm. Hmmmmmm.”
The New York Times on me, my nightlife photography, and the end of an era
The New York Times just profiled me — a full feature in yesterday’s paper. I’d been shooting the city’s after-dark underbelly for years, and it feels like both a crown and maybe, just maybe, the closing chapter of my nightlife photography run.
Songs for the End of the Century: last broadcast before the bombs, Belgrade, March 1999
March 14th, 1999. A Sunday night in Belgrade. My last ever radio show, though I didn’t know it yet.