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MAHAL™
A practice of noticing.
Through PPM™ (Pilgrimage Photography Method™), I explore photography as a companion to wandering, remembering, healing, and living attentively. Here you will find photographs made in borrowed apartments, gardens, photobooths, kitchens, thrift stores, and the roads less traveled.
MAHAL™ is a visual journal of everyday life and extraordinary passages. It is an invitation to slow down, pay attention, and discover that beauty, meaning, and connection are often waiting in the smallest moments.
The Edit Eye™ is the practice of returning to photographs after life has moved forward. The photographing eye makes the image; The Edit Eye™ meets it again through everything that has happened since. It asks not only, Is this a good photograph? but:
What does this photograph know now that I didn’t know when I made it?
Because sometimes the meaning of a photograph arrives long after the shutter closes.
Welcome to MAHAL.
PPM™ gathers.
The Edit Eye™ returns.
MAHAL™ notices.
Brick Lane, East London …
WITNESS THE LIGHT
Photography, Pilgrimage, Fathering, and the Discovery of Light
While revisiting photographs from my European pilgrimage, I discovered something I hadn't consciously recognized while making them: I had been photographing light all along.
Through PPM™, I gathered the experiences. Through The Edit Eye™, I returned to the photographs and began recognizing their meaning.
What emerged was WITNESS THE LIGHT, a reflection on grief, faith, pilgrimage, fathering myself, and the quiet ways photography reveals what we are becoming. ... Where do I place this on my Website?
PPM™ gathers the experience. The Edit Eye™ recognizes its meaning. WITNESS THE LIGHT names what emerged. MAHAL™ holds it all. And FATHERS gives it a home.
Read the full essay → On my Substack …
What I Notice …
Photographs gathered along the way. Some were made on pilgrimage, others much closer to home. Together, they explore memory, grief, faith, wonder, and the beauty hidden within the ordinary.
Storytelling …
I FATHER IN FREE VERSE
Last night, while working on the first issue of MAHAL: FATHERS, I discovered the sentence that sits at the center of everything I have been making:
I father in free verse.
My father taught me how to father myself.
Through photography, writing, travel, home, grief, faith, making, and the ordinary rituals of caring for my own life, I am learning that fathering is not only something I received from Daddy.
It is something I carry forward.
I father myself when I make a home for my grief.
When I create.
When I protect my peace.
When I keep going.
When I allow myself to become.
MAHAL is me fathering myself.
This 12-minute vlog is about finding those words, and realizing they may have been underneath the work all along.
EPIPHANY MOMENTS
On Silence, Boundaries, Fathering Myself, and Recognizing My Life's Work
What began as a simple Google search became an unexpected epiphany about my life, my work, and the person I am becoming.
In this MAHAL Living Room vlog, I reflect on the gift of silence, the importance of boundaries, and the discovery that my photography, social work, pilgrimage, and personal experiences have always been interconnected.
Sometimes we spend so much of our lives witnessing others that we forget to witness ourselves.
Last fall, I couldn't. This fall, I CAN.
MAHAL is best experienced on a larger screen.