Just returned from seeing Jem Cohen’s extraordinary film Museum Hours, and I’m in reverie. I’ve long been a fan of Jem’s work — in particular the documentaries that evoke character and place in unique ways. I’ve also long had a crush (since 1988) on Mary Margaret O’Hara, who plays Anne, a woman from Montreal who …
On Monday, I got a call from an editor at the Wall Street Journal asking if I was available to produce and shoot a story the next morning. But it was a quick turnaround; I would have to deliver that night. I juggled a few things and arranged to shoot this very fun piece on Tuesday …
I’m a little late on this, but here’s the group (sans one student) after the very successful and well-attended screening last month of documentaries produced by MSJ students at the Medill School. The students were in a course taught by Professor Brent Huffman and myself. The audience on August 29th was filled with supporters of …
For many years, I’ve wanted to come to Palenque. Since my first trip to the Mundo Maya in the early 90s, when I did a shoot at Chichen Itza with archeologist David Freidel, I had heard that Palenque — a classical period Mayan city in what is now in the Mexican state of Chiapas — …
In my first week in Mexico I hung out in the fishing village of Puerto Morelos, which has kept its charm as a village, in spite of being halfway between the resort towns of Cancun and Playa Del Carmen. A fixture of the town, near the main pier and the central plaza, is a lighthouse. …
Flavio is quick to point out that whale sharks are not whales, but sharks. “They’re the biggest FISH in the world,” he says. He’s our guide on the hour-long drive to the launch where we’ll catch a boat to see these big creatures. Flavio gives us the lowdown on the day, pausing every so often …
Earlier this month, I gathered a group of friends — from various points in my life, from college to my early work days to my New York years — to New York Harbor to join me for a few hours on the Ventura, the 1919 schooner that viewers of this blog should be quite familiar …
My grandfather’s business card from the 1940s. No street address, just rural route 3. And the phone was a party line, but RED254 had its own ring: Two longs and a short.
Circa 1937: Here’s my dad,Willard G. Duff, the baby in the arms of my grandmother Lillian and grandfather Craig. Dad’s cousin is standing to the right.
For those of you who live in Chicago and are free on the morning of Monday, June 10th, come by Lincoln Square for the grand opening of Dorothy’s Can-Do Café. The cafe, on N. Lincoln Avenue just south of Foster, is an extension of the bakery project at Gateway to Learning, a special education and …
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