by randy | Jun 15, 2012 | Blog
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/43508552[/vimeo] Melissa did a video that chronicles my difficulties putting a camera (and eventually in frustration, a computer) up on a kite string to shoot an aerial photograph. I needed a different angle on the Moai of Easter Island because...
by randy | Jun 10, 2012 | Blog
These are just a few photographs from the archives Melissa has been scanning for her talk at LUMIX. LUMIX Photofestival The third LUMIX festival opens June 13 in Hanover, Germany, with lectures by Joankim Eskilden (Denmark) and Melissa Farlow (USA). Other speakers...
by randy | Feb 13, 2012 | Blog, Books, News, Storytelling
The famous photographer, Robert Capa, was a guest on my grandfather’s radio show in New York in the 1940s. The book he is holding is on my shelf at home just below a shelf of the books that my grandfather wrote. Three of the more successful of my...
by randy | Feb 12, 2012 | Blog, Storytelling, Video
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/21372525[/vimeo] We’ve known John since he was an intern at the Pittsburgh Press where we all worked… We’ve vacationed in Africa together and kept up pretty well until he started covering conflict zones… and for years,...
by randy | Feb 12, 2012 | Blog, Publications
Melissa has shot city stories for National Geographic Traveler on Miami and Chicago, which made sense to her… but a Traveler story on Detroit? She didn’t know how great the city actually was until she got there, met some crazy artists, hung out at a turn...