The Samburu Series at Eckhart Gallery in The Hague

The Samburu series is a long term portraiture project that I've dedicated my heart and soul to over the last few years. The images went on display in Europe for the first time this weekend at Eckhart Gallery in The Hague. 

If you find yourself in Holland sometime during the next month, try to pass through "Den Haag", and be sure to check out the show. A big thanks to Frank van Haalen and Teun van den Dries for their interest and support of this body of work. One final note, and most importantly, a portion of all of the sales of these prints goes towards benefiting The Thorntree Project (which builds schools and provides education infrastructure to the Samburu people in northern Kenya).

Body Art (in overdrive)

It's about that time of the year when a Freezing February is partially thawed by the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue. The last few years the photography has been less than inspired. They try these silly things like body painting (that might sound good in a pre-production meeting but never quite comes off all that interesting - either in the execution or delivery). Then I find the artwork of Kim Joon out of Korea -- really interesting what he is doing with body painting and photography (as a fine art expression). Would be very cool if the people over at SI had the stone's to hire a guy like this to shoot a swimsuit layout for them.