All photographs in portfolios are available separately.
Pictures at an Exhibition: 50th Anniversary Retrospective
Between March and June 2020 Galeria Senita in Art de la Vida – Tucson, Arizona hosted my 50th Anniversary Retrospective Exhibition of documentary and street photographs… »more
New Work in Cuba 2018
In late April, I returned to Cuba to participate in the 13th Annual May Day Brigade. 263 participants from 31 nations including Brazil, Viet Nam, Chile, Scotland and the United States attended. We were housed… »more
My Cuba 1947-2017
In 2012 I made my first trip to photograph in Havana, Cuba with a Witness For Peace delegation. Our highly recommended educational tour there included visits to medical facilities, artist’s studios and museums… »more
Guatemala
In the summer of 2016 health leader Domingo Alvarez Ajanel, Guatemala Project founder Ila Abernathy and I drove from Tucson to Guatemala to deliver a donated Jeep and medical supplies for indigenous … »more
Street Photography: England, Scotland, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Panama & USA, 2006-2020
Photographs in this portfolio express my continuing interest in the psychological conditions and symbols of mankind that… »more
Good News in Mexico 2010
Despite the blood-for-drugs and slaughter of migrants news coming from Mexico in 2010, I found much to celebrate in central and southern Mexico that illustrates the good intentions of the Mexican people and… »more
Portraits of Exene
Outside of the recordings Exene has made with X, she has five solo albums to her credit. In 2009 her band played Club Congress in Tucson to support her new release Somewhere Gone on Bloodshot Records. Following soundcheck, I drove… »more
Shrines in the Southern Arizona Desert
Photographs in this series were made, in association with geographer Juanita Sundberg, for a New Cultural Landscapes grant funded by the University of… »more
Humane Borders
In October 2002, I began documenting the efforts of Humane Borders, the volunteer organization that places water stations in the desert to help prevent migrant deaths, and lobbies for a more humane border… »more
Samaritans & No More Deaths
In 2004 I was invited to photograph the humanitarian work of Samaritans, and then the efforts of the No More Deaths coalition when it formed. Since 2002 Samaritans have provided water, treated severe sprains… »more
More Migrant Artifacts
By carefully looking into these photographs of migrant artifacts, one can more fully understand the plight of desperate people seeking to improve their lives in America. Even though it may cost them their… »more
Mexico
I have been photographing the people of Mexico for over 35 years. Since 2002, when I began photographing the Migrant Trail series, I have spent considerable time in Nogales, Altar, Agua Prieta and Sasabe… »more
2001 to 2006: Selections
10 photos taken between 2001 and 2006 with widely ranging subjects, including Bob Edwards, my children at Disney World, Linda Ronstadt at Meet the Press with Michael Moore, and various roadside curiosities… »more
Musicians
Perhaps my favorite subject to photograph. In these 12 photos: Los Lobos, Phil and Dave Alvin, the Plugz, the B-52s, Dwight Yoakam, the Knitters, Merle Haggard, Doc Watson, Steve Berlin, Exene of X… »more
X the Band
22 photos of the members of this immensely talented band. Taken on stage and off: at the Whiskey A Go Go and other venues, on an LA rooftop, in the Louisiana countryside and other spontaneous locations… »more
Ireland 2009
11 photos that document my return to Ireland after thirty years. Three are election-related. The rest are street observations, taken in Dublin and other locations around the island… »more
Ireland 1979
Shot over a month hitchhiking around Ireland in 1979, these 5 photographs include Ireland’s all-women punk rock band the Boy Scoutz, an 11th century Franciscan monastery, a cemetery on a very cold and stormy day… »more
Bandon, Ireland Election 1979
As I traveled around Ireland prior to June 7th, I became aware of the importance of the upcoming election and decided to spend voting day photographing at the polling station in Bandon. Here are 6 selections… »more
UFW Prop 14 Campaign 1976
These 10 photographs, from my photo essay published in the Los Angeles Free Press, document the struggle of Cesar Chaves and farm workers to oppose the shutdown of the CA Agricultural Labor Relations Board… »more
Boston
I took these 5 photos when I was in Boston in the early 70s, where I was short-order cook, delivery boy and East-West Journal photographer. In the North End, in parks and playgrounds, I discovered my inner Cartier-Bresson… »more
5th & Wall Street, Los Angeles 1972-1984
These 20 photos document the scene on Skid Row in Los Angeles 1972-1984. I took these in an effort to understand why my alcoholic grandfather kept returning there… »more
1969 to 1984: Selections
10 photographs taken post a photography course at Moorpark College in the late sixties where I had studied the work of Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Henri Cartier-Bresson… »more