What the Media Says: Is It Real?
Hurricane Sandy flooding in Red Hook, Brooklyn, on Van Brunt Street, with the high water line defined on the building’s wall. ©Mark D Phillips Things the Media says —— CNN: “Experts say it’s a visceral example of what climate change can do to the planet’s most fearsome storms — supercharging
September 11, 24 years later
For 24 years I’ve been that guy who took that picture on 9/11. I go to parties and that’s how people introduce me. It makes you question if that email you received that said “you were put on the planet to take this picture” was true.
Nelson Mandela, South Africa and The End of Apartheid
It was THE Election of 1994. Mandela was running for President of South Africa. Mark D Phillips and Andrea Peyser, a married columnist and photographer for The New York Post, traveled to South Africa to witness the true end of apartheid. For the first time in their lives, people born with black skin – the majority in this proud and beautiful nation – would be casting their votes.
The Surly Bonds of Earth
Humans in space. Most can name the first astronaut or the first man on the moon. For me, eight other names were burned into my memory because of one of my photographs, Challengers’ destruction. Last week, I travelled to Washington, D.C., to visit the Challenger Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery and to view the Space Shuttle Discovery in her new life as a museum exhibit. This is my tribute to Challenger and Discovery.
Temporary Detention | Forced Assembly
Sharon Yamato and Stan Honda continue their collaboration which we first featured in Moving Walls: Remembering an American Tragedy in 2018 with the launch of www.forcedassemblycenters.com, a multimedia website that provides a focused look at the little-documented temporary so-called WWII “Assembly/Reception Centers.”
Gowanus DRIFTWOOD Comes Ashore
Artist Jos Prol’s Debut Solo Show Opens November 9, 2024, at Gowanus Dredgers Gallery with GIANT GOWANUS DRIFTWOOD SCULPTURE and 14 FOOT-TALL PAINTING.
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,
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.
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.
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.
Graffiti Gone…The Destruction of Gowanus
The graffiti of the Gowanus Canal is disappearing as the condominium gentrification reaches a fever pitch and the neighborhood disappears.
Never Forget: 9/11 in 2023
More than two decades have gone by in a flash. It was my now-24 year-old daughter’s first day of pre-school when the planes piloted by Islamic savages felled the World Trade Center.
Leaving the surly bonds of Earth
The Artemis-1 mission is firing the imagination with images that captivate and bring back the excitement of the 1968 Lunar Christmas, an event that brought astronomy into my life. I grew up in an age of exploration that finally feels like it has returned.
