4 Minute Warning

This is just a nightmare
But soon I’m going to wake up
Someone’s gonna bring me around

Hiding from the bombers
Wading through the fields
Running in the half light

 – Radiohead

 

DRC 2008 © Dominic Nahr / Œil Public

 

DRC 2008 © Dominic Nahr / Œil Public

Dance swim walk home

 

 

 

 

To be alone

You gave your body to the lonely
They took your clothes
You gave up a wife and a family
You gave your goals

To be alone with me
To be alone with me
To be alone with me
You went up on a tree

 – Sufjan Stevens

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shibuya-ku

Tokyo, Japan – First hours of 2009 on the streets of Shibuya-ku with Nina & Co.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Young folks, submerged

Siem Reap, Cambodia – photo-types, a swimming pool and the encroaching night

 

If i told you things i did before 
told you how i used to be 
would you go along with someone like me 
if you knew my story word for word 
had all of my history 
would you go along with someone like me

 – Peter Bjorn and John

 

 

 

 

A deluge

Siem Reap, Cambodia – in a waterfall… the halcyon days

 

 

 

Just don’t drop it

Broadbeach, Australia – photo shoot with Avril and the baby

 

I don’t generally do baby photos… but this one…

The marital bed

It is one o’clock at night: Agnés and Paul are undressing. If they were asked to describe their partner’s motions at such times, they would be embarrassed. For a long time now they haven’t been looking at each other. Disconnected, their instrument of memory fails to record anything of those common nighttime moments that precede lying down in the marital bed.

The marital bed: the altar of marriage; and when one says altar, one implies sacrifice. Here one of them sacrifices for the other: both have trouble falling asleep, and their partner’s noisy breathing wakes them, so they wriggle toward the edge of the bed, leaving a broad space down the middle; they pretend to be sound asleep in the hope of making sleep easier for their partner, who will then be able to turn from side to side without disturbing the other. Unfortunately, the partner does not make use of this opportunity because he too (and for the same reason) pretends to be asleep and fears to budge.

Not being able to fall asleep and not allowing oneself to move: the marital bed.

– excerpt taken from the novel “Immortality” by Milan Kundera

 

two towels 2004 © Alec Soth from the series Niagara

Sarah, take off your shoes

Sydney, Australia – Photo shoot for Sewn with Sarah Stephens

 

Sarah, take off your shoes for me please…

Slumdogs

Mumbai, India – Dhavari…

 

A beacon of hope, tenacity and often celebration. Also known as the largest slum in Asia. Living on reclaimed land, mountains of human waste and sewage, the people of Dhavari have made this place their own. Industriously at work and play, they laugh, sweat and carry on with the integrity of hope that their children will have a better future.