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The dilemma of “home”

I’m writing from the desk of a friend of inestimable worth: he has a spare bedroom in Manhattan. I flew back from London on Tuesday night and was surprised by how strongly I felt that I had returned home. The city conspires to seduce me as I prepare to leave it:...

First NYC byline!

I might be writing from London, I might have returned this afternoon from the north coast of Spain, but my first US byline has appeared today in a NYC publication – see this Time Out New York piece about Cory Treadway’s photographs of ice shanties that are...

Live from London

Between last Thursday night and Sunday night, when I flew from JFK to Heathrow, I packed for my trip, packed up my apartment, successfully reclaimed my security deposit from the reluctant landlord, gave away many items too cheap to ship to Australia but too valuable...

Midsummer madness

Apologies for the lack of regular postings recently. After raising my head from more revisions on the book (my book!), I realised I had only several more sleeps before I go … first to London, then back to New York, then Sydney, then … As a result I am...

A trip around my neighbourhood

Just after seven o’clock this morning, I met my friend and neighbour DvG (whose art was the subject of a recent post) for a photography tour of our immedicate vicinity. The purpose of this tour was to take some photographs of me in my Brooklyn ‘hood, in...
Blasts from the past

Blasts from the past

It’s almost 10pm on Tuesday night my time. I had believed I would get through the entire day without turning on my laptop computer, but it looks like I have formed a habit. Email seems to run like blood in the American cultural veins, and I believe it’s...
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