Arlington

Two years ago, I worked with my friend and colleague Andy Revkin, a science reporter at The New York Times, to create a video piece for Memorial Day. Andy had written a song about Arlington National Cemetery, so I went there to shoot images to complement Andy’s lyrics and music. With finite space, and with some two dozen funerals a day at the site — for veterans dying of old age and recent deaths of soldiers in war zones — Arlington will eventually run out of room. Andy recorded his song with his band Uncle Wade, and after the original video piece ran on the New York Times site, I put together a music-only version that Andy recently posted on the band’s myspace page. Here it is.