From the Archive is a regular column that features one image from our archive and appears every Thursday. LUCEO Images has a thorough group archive (keyword search bar, top right) and it can be found here.
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Santa Barbara, Calif., May 6, 2009 – Charlie Duff, left, watches the Jesusita Fire as his wife Cathy Duff …
In January I spent a week University of California San Francisco Medical Center looking at new technologies in brain surgery. Day 2 looked at speech mapping of the brain.
Dr. Edward Chang, the Director of the UCSF Center for Neural Engineering and Prosthetics, has been working to map the brain to determine exactly what parts …
I have been thinking a lot lately about the combine work of the late Robert Rauschenberg. His combine paintings, particularly the screen-printing and solvent transfer work, was a big influence on how I came to see and interpret this project. And his generous spirit and work ethic has been an added inspiration. He said …
My son is always on the move, a hundred miles an hour. In trying to document his growth and the myriad of beautiful and touching moments of his life, I have had to turn to using whatever camera I have nearby. Even that has become a challenge lately.
Recently I upgraded my phone and the …
Nowruz, the Persian New Year, marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the Persian calendar. It is usually close to the Jewish holiday Purim, but because the Persian calendar is on a solar cycle and the Jewish calendar is on a lunar one, the two holidays can be as much as …
While on my way to the desert for an assignment last week, I detoured a bit to work on my energy project: (re)SOURCE. I made my way south along the coast to San Onofre State Beach, which is also home to the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. I am shooting the project in b&w …
Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people living in the Persian Empire from genocide at the hands of the political advisor, Haman, to the Persian King Ahasuerus (Xerses 1), as told in the Talmud’s Book of Esther. It is said that Esther, who was Jewish, convinced the king …
In January I spent a week University of California San Francisco Medical Center looking at new technologies in brain surgery. It was really incredible to see the things they are developing. The first surgery was for a patient, Linda Sharp, who suffers from Parkinson’s – a progressive disease affecting the nervous system that causes …
This week LUCEO took two awards from CENTER – Matt Eich won first place for his work on rural poverty and I was given an Honorable Mention for my project American Nomads. A special thanks to juror Todd James, Senior Photo Editor at National Geographic Magazine for the selections and to Laura Pressley for …
The drive from California to Vegas has moments of subtle beauty and stark ugliness. It is a quiet drive mostly on farm roads through the desert, finished with a fast paced interstate into the city. I enjoy it right to the point where I arrive in Vegas. A headache usually ensues as I reach the …
