Providence, Rhode Island

When Delmi’s husband moved out, she had to find a way to support herself. They had both come from El Salvador and married here, in Providence. Al principio…

Sometimes I see a perfect picture in front of me: the light, the color, the mood, the gesture. The person. In my mind is the criticism that we…

Rose is the wife of a teacher at my sons’ school, someone whose beauty I’d long admired, though I didn’t know her very well. When I wrote to…

I was in Olneyville Square, walking, when I heard something clanging behind me, metal against metal. An elderly man in a brown cap was riding a bicycle. Under…

Rhonda says this portrait of her shows “mixed emotions”: “happy and kind of sad at the same time.” When I first met her, she was walking toward me…

It’s Sunday morning on Manton Avenue, and I’m struggling. I go into a church and ask to make some portraits, but the pastor says he has to first…

I first met Trudy when the crocuses were in bloom. They were white, illuminated by the sun, scattered across her front lawn. As I stood staring she opened…

Providence Portraits is a new body of work that I will be posting here, formerly known as Seen/Unseen. It looks at the city of Providence, Rhode Island, through photographic…