A Hair Salon Inside a Refugee Camp (Preemptive Love)

This piece was originally published on Preemptive Love, which merged with Search for Common Ground in 2023. This is an archive of the content I produced for Preemptive Love while I was on staff from 2019 to 2021. I spent 2019 and early 2020 in Kurdistan, Iraq as a field communications officer. Iraq, 30 April…More

Healing His Community from the Wounds of ISIS (Preemptive Love)

This piece was originally published on Preemptive Love, which merged with Search for Common Ground in 2023. This is an archive of the content I produced for Preemptive Love while I was on staff from 2019 to 2021. I spent 2019 and early 2020 in Kurdistan, Iraq as a field communications officer. More

It speaks!

Ye gods, you say, you’re alive! I know, it’s been a while. Over a year, to be exact. My last post was at the end of November 2022, and let’s face it, I wasn’t exactly prolific before that. Which is to say, I’m glad the three of you that still subscribe to my blog are…More

Relæ

Revisiting Per-Anders Jörgensen’s photographs through Christian Puglisi’s Relæ: A Book of Ideas.More

Cracks

Visitors that come to Singapore for a holiday inevitably bang on about how put-together this country is. And it’s true, for the most part. We’re generally an orderly, compliant nation, and that applies to our infrastructure: stuff works here. Schedules are adhered to. Rules followed. Things are in good repair. But if you pay attention,…More

Insta-death

It took an Instagram outage disabling my feed, to get me back to this space again. I don’t post on Instagram all that much. A bunch of pictures once a month, if that. The odd event call out. I use it mostly as a messaging service, with some direct messages going back years. But it’s…More

This would be the time to unsubscribe

Some months ago I started blogging about an injury and subsequent recovery from surgery. I’ve taken those posts down, deciding against documenting my recovery here. Mostly because I want to write about it without taking pictures, and this is — aspirationally — a photo blog. I don’t really have a lot to say about photographing.…More

Iraq on my Mind

It was fun writing the recent set of vignettes, reliving the warm gold of Kurdish summer in 2019. But it begs the question: it’s 2021, why am I stuck in 2019?More

Heavenly Sunset

☀️ Somewhere outside Sulaymaniyah city. Kurdistan, Iraq, 2019. This spot was one of those heaven-on-earth encounters. At sunset, the farmers would herd cows and geese across the lower slope of the mountains, towards the village. From the top of the ridge, where @ihsanibraheem and I were waiting with cameras at the ready, you could hear the odd…More