Mark Phillips, Author at South Brooklyn Network

News & Stories

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.

September 15, 2024 No Comments

News & Stories

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.

September 1, 2024 No Comments

Beyond Brooklyn

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.

July 9, 2024 No Comments

Photography

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.

June 10, 2024 No Comments

Total Solar Eclipse in Franklin, VT. ©Mark D Phillips

News & Stories

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.

April 11, 2024 No Comments

Photography

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.

March 13, 2024 No Comments

Beyond Brooklyn

Wilmington Where?

Wilmington? Vermont? It was a one stop-light town in the way on my way to Mount Snow. I always drove into town, turned right at that light and never once stopped. That changed this weekend in my efforts to travel on the New England Masters Ski Racing circuit in an old-style way, keeping costs down and when traveling alone, basically looking for those 70s and 80s type cheap motels that a single is willing to stay i

February 2, 2024 No Comments

Buenos Aires, Argentina, light and statues. ©Mark D Phillips

Beyond Brooklyn

A Hot New Year in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires. My first time in Argentina, my first time in South America. 15 million people and the city is thriving. It’s a traveller’s dream location.

January 25, 2024 No Comments

Matt Dodge races to win the 84th Hochgebirge Cup Challenge on January 20, 2024, at Mittersill. ©Mark D Phillips

Sports

Ski the East: The Hochgebirge Challenge

The Hochgebirge Challenge began in 1931, running continuously except for a few years because of war and lack of snow, and is recognized as the longest running team event in the US. The race has been an Olympic qualifier event, a National Championship, a National Championship qualifier event, and most recently, the qualifier for the Masters National Championship. The trophy is spectacular and makes you want to kiss it just like the Stanley Cup.

January 23, 2024 No Comments

Ruth Peyser's Israeli travel documents from the 1950s.

News & Stories

Survivor’s Guilt

Ruth Peyser was an Israeli, not originally by choice, but for survival. In 1939, she settled alone in Palestine. On her 100th birthday, Jewish hatred abounds.

January 15, 2024 No Comments