The Artist’s Studio, Gustave Courbet

Musée d’ Orsay, Paris 2026

Sketching Michelangelo

Vestibule, Laurentian Library

Florence 2025

As many groups of visitors came and went, a man making sketches and I, a photographer, stayed on and on and on…. We only met one another outside the vestibule, as we both finally managed to tear ourselves away from this glorious space.

In a letter to the photographer, the man who was sketching wrote:

“It was great meeting you at the Laurentian Library, my favorite architectural space on the planet.

“Michelangelo uses the classical arch to narrate human struggle, to emancipate from the prison of earthly existence: Climb the stairs of the vestibule and enter the realm of the mind (the reading room).”

Joel Sanders, FAIA and professor Yale School of Architecture

24 January 2026

Reading Room

Reading Room, Laurentian Lilbrary

Florence 2025

The Careful Reader

Maastricht 2018

Slow Travel

Rome 2011

Rose Blossom

2026

Weathervane and Crow

Greenbank Garden⁩, ⁨Glasgow⁩ 2026

Please Come in for a Look

‎⁨Greenbank Garden⁩, ⁨Glasgow⁩ 2026

Calla Lily and Guest

‎⁨Greenbank Garden⁩, ⁨Glasgow 2026

Parallel Lines

Zeeland 2026

Horizon

Zeeland 2026

Dance of the Trees

Jutland Seascape

Summer 1993

Upon my leaving New York City for a year-long assignment in Warsaw in the autumn of 1992, a family member gave me an old point-and-shoot film camera with a fixed lens.

Although my interest in the visual arts had been keen from early childhood and I had taken figure drawing classes and studied art history in the U.S. and in Europe, this was my first foray into photography.

The photograph presented here was taken with that camera during a trip to visit friends in Denmark.  Despite the poor image quality, it remains among my favourites.  Jutland Dunes is another photograph taken during this visit.  You will find it already in the Portfolio.