Since i don't have any shoots this week and am laid up at home with the flu, it's "clear out the recent work folder and put on the blog week". Here's a few recent jobs that i liked...one was for espn magazine, the shot of the little boy tearing the page out of the book. One was for fortune magazine, the shot of the family in their living room, and one was for shape magazine, the shot of the lady in the hazmat suit in times square......had the flu the last couple of days so been lying pretty low watching the tele. the earthquake happened yesterday in haiti so i've been watching that. very sad stuff.... I did a shoot in haiti about 10 years ago, so alot of the images coming out are vaguely familiar. Especially the presidential palace, striking images of its collapse, hard to believe. I stayed at a little hotel called hotel ollofson, in port au prince, i wonder how it did in the quake? It's actually a big big house that was very old so i think it may have done ok. mostly wood, not much concrete. The writer Graham Greene lived and worked there in the 60's, and his book "the comedians" was written there. My most vivd memory of being in haiti was sitting at the bar at night, have rum punch after rum punch, watching the world series (i was there in november 97). The tv was behind the bar, and also there was a big mirror hanging on the wall behind the bar. The hotel was basically empty as haiti was having trouble then, and i was the only one at the bar. I would watch the game on the tv, but also every now and then i would catch out of the corner of my eye a rat scurrying across the floor behind me.....good memories indeed..