Juvenciana - San Blas Islands, Panama

Juvenciana lives on the island of Cartí, part of an archipelago chain off the northern coast of Panama. Her people, the Kuna, have lived on these islands for more than five centuries.

The morning in 2006 that we photographed Juvenciana the quality of the light was unusually soft; a perfect match for her serene, unselfconscious presentation of herself. 

Emily

This is Emily. When we met her, she was taking a cigarette break from her job as a hostess in a trendy Lower East Side bistro in Manhattan. It was a summer Sunday afternoon. She was standing just this way, and consented to have us take her photo with the large format camera. 

Emily appears in our book of street portraits, Face New York available at Blurb.com

A Point of Contact - Antonio Patrizio

This is Antonio Patrizio at 86 years old. He was a gentle, dignified villager in the town of San Benedetto in Perillis, Italy, a small, out-of-the-way place. His image graces the cover of one of my latest books self published at Blurb.com