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The Last Coliseum

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

SAN PEDRO GARZA GARCIA– My taxi headed north on Avenida CuauhtÃ©moc through downtown Monterrey to my first bullfight. Â It was a fine, hot Sunday in northern Mexico and the cloudless sky was the starched, flat blue of a faded work shirt. Â I had bought my ticket, front row in the shade (barrera y sombre), a […]

Filed in Mexico, Monterrey, Monterrey, Uncategorized | Also tagged black and white, bullfighting, Fuji, Fuji X100f, Fujifilm, Leica, Leica Monochrome, Leica photography, matador, Mexico, Monterrey, Monterrey Mexico, Nuevo Leon, Plaza Monumental de Monterrey, Sergio Garza, torero | Comments (0)

Ganpati Year Two

Friday, September 23, 2016

Filed in Bombay, India, IPhone 6s, Leica, monsoon, Mumbai, Street Photography | Also tagged Bombay, Chowpatty Beach, city hike, Ganesh, Ganpati, Leica, Leica M-P, Leica photography, Leica street photography, Monsoon, Mumbai, Mumbai street photography, Nikon D800, South Asia, street photography | Comments (0)

Land of Water

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

MUMBAIâ€”There is a liquid quality to Mumbai. Water is everywhere, omnipresent without being always visible. It is especially so now in the season of the monsoon, but even during the dry season there is a wetness and fluidity to the place. It is hard to catch your breath as it feels like half the air […]

Filed in Bandra, Bombay, India, monsoon, Mumbai, South Asia | Also tagged Arabian Sea, Bombay, India, Maharashtra, Mumbai, water | Comments (0)

Crossing and Moving

Thursday, February 12, 2015

EL PASO–About a year ago, give or take a week or three, I was in San Salvador and hadÂ just found out my wife had been offered a job with the Foreign Service. This meant that the month after my return from Central America would be a blur of moving, packing and goodbyes ending with a […]

Filed in El Paso, Iglesia Cristo Rey, Immigration, Juarez, Lutheran, Mexico, The Border | Also tagged border, border fence, Border Immersion, border immersion trip, Border Patrol, Cristo Rey, El Paso, Faith Lutheran, Iglesia Cristo Rey, Immigration, Juarez, Juarez Mexico, la frontera, Leica M-P, Lutheran, Mexico, migration, Panasonic GX7, Texas | Comments (0)

Portraits of Grace, House of Hope

Sunday, February 1, 2015

To see a digital preview and to buy the book Portraits of Grace, House of Hope, click on this link:Â http://www.blurb.com/books/5960660-portraits-of-grace-house-of-hope# ARLINGTON–I first saw Casa Esperanza in the fall of 2006. I spent no more than an hour there, on my way to somewhere else, but it remained etched in my memory. My thoughts would […]

Filed in Casa Esperanza, Central America, El Salvador, Hasseblad, Panasonic GF1, Portraits | Also tagged Central America, El Salvador, Hasselblad, Homeless, Homelessness, Hope House, Jamie Stark, Lutheran, Lutheran Missions, missionaries, poverty, San Salvador, Tri-X | Comments (0)

Bob Kendrick’s ABC 6 News, TV news piece on “The Riches of Central America”

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

ABC 6 News Anchor Bob Kendrick, interviewed me last month about the exhibit at the McConnell Art Center. Kendrick is an interesting and talented guy and I am grateful to him for the coverage and the time and work he put into this piece. Follow this link to see the news spot on YouTube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNDPdSOMU7w

Filed in Central America, Columbus | Also tagged ABC 6 News, Bob Kendrick, Central American Immigration, Immigration, TV News | Comments (0)

Faces of Transcarpathia Write up on “La Vida Leica”

Thursday, May 29, 2014

La Vida Leica is one of the premier sites dealing with all manner of things involving the German cameras. The entire photo essay The Faces of Transcarpathia was shot with a Leica M6ttl and La Vida Leica picked up on this from the Columbus Dispatch article. Follow this LINK to see the website!

Filed in Leica, Transcarpathia, Ukraine, Ukrainian | Also tagged film photography, La Vida Leica, Leica, Leica M6ttl, Leica photography | Comments (0)

“The Faces of Transcarpathia” Exhibit at the Martin de Porres Center

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Filed in Columbus, Leica, Portraits, Transcarpathia, Ukraine, Ukrainian | Also tagged Kodak 400CN, Leica, Leica M6ttl, Leica photography, The Faces of Transcarpathia, Transcarpathia, Ukraine, Ukrainian | Comments (0)

Books From the West and the East of Honduras

Friday, May 31, 2013

It has been a busy year, and while there was a three week trip with Missionary Air Group into La Mosquitia, teaching, Scouting and having a beautiful baby boy named Henry, a huge part of the past year (or two) has been spent cataloging, archiving, scanning, collating, collecting, organizing, publishing and putting some of the […]

Filed in Central America, Honduras, La Moskitia, Leica, Missionary Air Group, Nikon D3, Panasonic GF1, Portraits, Rus Rus | Also tagged Books by Andrew Tonn, CAMO, Central America, Central American Medical Outreach, Documentary, Documentary journalism in Central America, Latin American journalism, LeicaM6ttl, MAG, Medical Aid, Medical Aid in Central America, Miskito Coast, Missionary Air Group, Nikon D800, Panasonic GF1 | Comments (0)

Retro Camera Does Columbus

Friday, September 28, 2012

COLUMBUS–The following are some of a series of images from Columbus, Ohio taken with the Droid Incredible and Retro Camera from Urbian…

Filed in Columbus, Ohio | Also tagged Andrew Tonn photography, camera phone, cap city, Columbus, Columbus Ohio, midwest photography, Ohio, Retro Camera, Retro Camera Connector, the heart of it all, Urbian | Comments (0)