Europe
I have travelled to Europe several times. First was a trip to Prague and the Czech countryside in late Winter/early Spring of 1995.
In December of 1998 I travelled to Verona, Italy to oversee the printing of my first book, Along the Way. After the press check was over, I rented a car and travelled around northern Italy photographing for a couple of weeks.
In the Fall of 2000 I travelled to France. I went for two reason, aside from the obvious ones. I had been corresponding with Willy Ronis, the great humanist photographer who has been an inspiration to me for as long as I can remember. In one of his letters he invited me, should I find myself in France, to get in touch and pay him a visit. The October evening I spent with him in Paris was, and remains, one of the high points of my life. The other reason was the opportunity to photograph the ancestral farmhouse of the 19th century French photographer, Felix Thiollier, in the Forez region of central France. This was made possible by my good friend and former English Literature professor at San Francisco State University, Stephen Arkin, a close friend of the Thiollier family descendants.
Since 2010 I have made three trips to Öland, an island near Kalmar in southern Sweden, to visit with my dear friends, Urs Bernhard and Gudrun Thielemann.
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