These are photos of some very quickly made 5x7 prints. They were taken in New Orleans during spring break.

Coney Island, August 2007 / Austin, November 2008

"My favorite pictures have always been complex ones which ask questions and pose problems, but leave the answers and solutions to the viewer. These are images with a long and evolving life, in which the photograph may transcend the subject and become the subject."

- Constantine Manos, from his book, American Color. Also, see the slide show.

Coney Island, August 2007 / UT, March 2007

lower Manhattan, august 2007

Museum of Modern Art, New York, july 2007

4-5-2007, LBJ Library

election night, UT West Mall and Huston-Tillotson University

Dia De Los Muertos in Austin

Diwali celebration at UT

"Photography is really so complicated. It might look so immediate but it’s an incredibly complex, multi-layered thing. So I’m there trying to concentrate on all the different ingredients when occasionally a moment transcends all that. Ultimately these pictures have a special meaning in my journey. I treasure them because they’re like gifts – signs that something is good. The connection, that’s what’s important – that through this medium we can, perhaps, understand and touch each other."
-Paolo Pellegrin (from the book, Magnum Stories)


"Paolo uses these tools to emphasize his point. His style is at the service of his social conscience; he covers wars and political upheavals, today’s great waves of our history … unlike many a photographer today who uses the same tools as gadgets, whose photography is all style but lacks content. This is why I offered to edit his work for this book.”
-Abbas (from the book, Magnum Magnum)

Port Aransas, Texas

State Fair of Texas

pearl street dance party, 10-4-2008

ut vs rice, 9-20-2008

from july 2007



"I think that in some photographs the picture is more important than the subject- the subject of the picture is the photograph" - Constantine Manos (from his American Color book)

taken a few years ago at padre island national seashore

News briefing on Hurricane Ike at the Emergency Operations Center on Friday. The top two were taken just before the briefing.

"The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of a chasm between the economic needs of our consumer society and the requirements of those who bear witness to this epoch. This affects us all, particularly the younger generations of photographers. We must take greater care than ever not to allow ourselves to be separated from the real world and from humanity."

- Henri Cartier-Bresson
(from his book, "The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson")

anti-war protest in austin... taken a couple years ago

along central park

coney island

more from the light show party at Pearl St. (10-1-2006)