My day job is an historian at Indiana University, South Bend. I teach 20th century U.S. history, cold war histories, photographic and film histories, and a number of research seminars. My writings include Edward Lansdale's Cold War (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005) and articles on the Vietnam War and the CIA. I'm currently working on a cultural history of the CIA.
These photos series began in 2002 with "stray gloves." Here I used a Canon Elph2 camera while walking the streets of New York City. In 2006 I started "The Gravity of Sky" using a Panasonic DMC-FX01 in Seattle--thus the number of photographs taken under cloudy, rainy skies. I later used a Sony A6000 and various iPhones in Europe, Washington, DC, New York City, and South Bend. During a Fulbright semester in 2023-24 in Vietnam I created "Vietnam | Motorbikes | Motion." These photos were all taken with an iPhone. They are currently on display at IU South Bend's library. Here's the press release.
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