Essays

What I saw before I had the words

The Shutter and the Verdict

When rumor runs ahead of judgment

— from the chapter The Anticipated Verdict

Barcelona, August 17, 2017. During the Las Ramblas terrorist attack, trapped behind a bar's lowered shutter, I witnessed in real time how a rumor manufactures a culprit before the fact.

A Photographic Window onto the Occupied Territory

When the Fracture Becomes Landscape

— from the chapter Organized Permanence

Occupied Cyprus, 1986. I crossed the Green Line with my camera and photographed Famagusta, the ghost city the wire holds frozen in the instant of flight: a wound turned into landscape.