“Hello” we called on the new Gowanus. Our voices echoed back. This was not the Gowanus Canal of the last thirty years. It also was almost unrecognizable.
Author: Mark D Phillips
Sportsball at 30: The legacy of Arthur Ashe
The Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health celebrates 30 years of Sportsball tonight at the Pierre Hotel in New York City, bringing a new vision to healthcare. Arthur Ashe created the Institute on December 3, 1992, just three months before his death from AIDS.
The Fish Queen returns to Gowanus
Following multiple sold-out shows on a floating stage on the Gowanus Canal over Labor Day weekend, The Fish Queen of the Gowanus Canal will debut several new songs in upcoming performances at Principles in Gowanus on October 4th & 5th. The Fish Queen of the Gowanus Canal, a new musical, […]
Once upon a time in Pairi Daiza
With 185 acres and the opportunity to visit with more than 800 species in its “nine worlds” housing more than 7,500 animals, Pairi Daiza was the culmination of a dream for Eric Domb, founder and chairman. He discovered the property in 1992, abandoning his career and devoting himself to the creation of paradise out of the former Cistercian Abbey of Cambron, founded in 1148 in Brugelette by twelve monks from Clairvaux.
Green Heron image wins Big E Photo Contest
Mark D Phillips photograph of a Green Heron titled “On The Hunt” captured the 2024 Best in Department prize in the Eastern States Exposition’s (The Big E) Creative Arts Photography Contest. The fair celebrates the people, the food, the livestock, wildlife, shopping, agriculture and music of the six New England states, hosting about 1.5 million revelers annually and this year drew a record of more than 830 Photography Contest entries.
GowanusCanal.us
Mark D Phillips launches GowanusCanal.us, a new website devoted to his 35-year documentation of the renaissance along and in Brooklyn’s Superfund waterway.
Return to Barcelona
Barcelona. I haven’t been there since 1992. Today’s Barcelona is sprawling and majestic, much as it was in 1992, just more. When I gazed across the cityscape from the patio of Fabra Observatory, near the top of Tibidabo, the tableau of city and Mediterranean stretched along the coastline.
Photoville evolves to its best version yet
Photoville 2024 returned to its true home under the Brooklyn Bridge with its best rendition yet, presenting a showcase of photographers around the world. I had a tingle of anticipation as I spotted one of the greatest photographs of recent memory, Ami Vitale’s heartrending image of the last moments of the last White Rhino, Sudan. Looking at the image, with the incongruity of the roadway of the Brooklyn Bridge above it, was striking.
Hello Darkness My Old Friend
Professor Jay Pasachoff of Williams College lit my interest in total solar eclipses and I thank him as I celebrate my third TSE viewing on April 8, 2024.
Remembering Chuck Liddy
Remembering Chuck Liddy, by Mark D Phillips. Chuck Liddy is the reason I am the photographer I grew into. Our competition at the Morganton News Herald shaped my entire photographic career.
