June 10th, 2009
I’m hoping it will become a habit. I have started to go camera walking, with Hale aboard. One Baby Bjorn, one Canon 5D and a loose agenda of neighborhood walking. Looking to see what I see. I’m wondering if having Hale True with me is affecting what I’m seeing, how I’m seeing it.
I talk to my son a lot as we walk, even when he’s sleeping. (I want him to know my voice really well.) For picturing things, I guess I am looking in particular at stuff I make note of to Hale. But what am I looking at? I dunno: signs of who we are. Mundane, funny, rich, sad, tacky, smart, accidental, on purpose expressions.
The ways people tell you who they are by how they keep their stuff arranged around them. Casual anthropology, taken in through the eyeballs.
April 5th, 2009
Just came across this out there in the lovely (Google-empowered) infinity of the internet:
It seems the Community Alliance with Family Farmers is an organization that shares with us some common ground, regarding people’s relationshipw with their food.
“Together, the photographs and text play off one another, presenting a rich, thoughtful, and celebratory study of California’s edible bounty.”
You can see the review in full here–go to page 11 (It’s a PDF, but not a huge one). Thanks, nice CAFF people!
February 25th, 2009
In Mother Jones Magazine’s March+April “Let’s Grow America!” food issue, on stands now. I like it!
The cover looks like this:
And the first page of the spread is thus:
See also this online photo essay. Nice, huh? I wouldn’t a minded if Mother Jones had provided a link to our website, or some info about the book (or a link to buy it!), but still, nice to see.
February 24th, 2009
…to bring you an important announcement.
NonFiction Industries is expanding! Last Wednesday at 9:02am, Amy gave birth to our son, Hale True Benson Squire.
He came two months early and so will have to stay in the hospital for a while while all his systems get up to speed, but word on the street is the boy is doing just swell. We’ve set up a little blog which we hope will be a good means of assembling and sharing the developing life story of our son.
(Our son!)
February 4th, 2009
Over at Grist, there was a nice little article about our reading at Elliott Bay Book Company last week. Thanks Grist! Thanks Ashley Braun!
One lesson I walked away with that day was that food is only as good as the relationships on which it’s based. —Ashley Braun
