The shot of The Three Graces was on my list of projects for over six years, but I could never get three friends together at the same time. Kelsey and René at lunch just after we met. Over lunch they decided to pose for Three Graces. Two Canadian Women Two beautiful Canadians, Kelsey and Renè...
Rusalka, a Slavic folk tale set to music by Dvořák Vulci Gorge - on the way to the location of Rusalka Rusalka was suggested to me by Ania, a professional singer who had herself performed the role in Dvořák’s eponymous opera. A folk tale found in the slavic world akin to...
A Sixties song comes to life A Whiter Shade of Pale, one of the all time great song titles, and in effect a one line poem. The Procol Harum song, came into my mind as I arranged this picture on the basalt rocks in the gorge near the ruins of the Etruscan city of Vulci on the...
In the ancient world, given that fertility was of fundamental importance, sex and religion were entwined. Bacchanalian rites were famous for their eroticism. A Roman home would often have the figure of Priapus holding his oversized phallus prominently displayed by the entrance and the...
Orpheus and Eurydice, one of the best known and heart rending myths. The gifted Orpheus whose music was so lovely that he charmed not only women and ferocious beasts but even the trees and rocks. He fell in love with the beautiful nymph Eurydice but on their wedding day she was assaulted...
Before the advent of monotheistic religions peoples of antiquity held that gods resided in places and that their voices holding eternal truths could be heard if you only listened - what the Romans referred to as Genius Loci. In Europe this belief persisted in country districts until...
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