I’ve taken the Moscow-Tallinn train any number of times. The scent of coal smoke, used to heat samovars for tea water on board, is indelibly printed on my brain as the scent of beckoning horizons. It’s an old Soviet train, built solid and ugly, but it stays warm and nowadays, they even usually keep it stocked [...]
Lillian is one of my favorite models. She has a wonderful vibrancy about her and that Estonian way of always smiling, even when I'm telling her to look fierce! I…
Last month I did a shoot in Ankara with model Özge Can posing in a chiton, a dress common to women throughout the ancient Mediterranean, at the Roman Baths archaeological…
One of the world's best collections of ancient Roman sculpture is in the relatively small Antalya Archaeological Museum, on Turkey's Southern coast. An ancient settlement itself, Antalya is within 90 minute's drive of five ruined ancient cities, and the pick of the finds from them reside in the city's museum.
I like to know as much as possible about places before I visit or move to them, and as I’ve been doing a lot of travel over the last few years I’ve worked some basic online research methods. Of course books are great and I love a good travel guide – Rough Guides are my favorite, generally – but most of the time I don’t have easy access to English language books. Hence, most of my research is done online. (more…)
The last trip got to me. Just a bit, nothing too bad, only traveling two weeks around Turkey, where I've now lived for 5 months. It left me exhausted, though,…