It’s the richest season—end of summer, near early fall. There’s so much at the market we must bring home. Some to preserve. These are old photos from Perú of my friend Soraida teaching the women from Huiracocha (Perú) a new recipe. Balanced nutrition is an important concept to spread, especially to those young mothers who [...]
In Search of Soil preview from The Seedling Project on Vimeo. This is somewhat outdated—not that I don’t love it, but it’s a bit on the old side (June ’07? where does the time go?). When I started making this documentary I promised myself to stick with it even if it took ten whole years! [...]
Cattle Branding Ceremony, Pampachiri, Peru from The Seedling Project on Vimeo. For your viewing pleasure I have put a very simple video of a cattle branding ceremony up on vimeo. This is very much an anthropological experiment—there are so many records of events that Hannah and I filmed when we were in Peru that don’t [...]
Danzante from The Seedling Project on Vimeo. This is a video I made for a post that my good friend Meara O’Reilly wrote for the SF MoMA blog a while ago. I’ve partially edited a longer cut with more dancing, but I’m having a hard time deciding how long each cut should be, and what [...]
This was a page hidden like an easter egg on our first website. It’s always been one of my favorite images. About our logo. We took the shape from a photo of a mountainside in production of vegetables using the Laymi system. Sistema Laymi dictates that land be used two years in a row followed [...]
One of the things I’m going to do with this newly updated website is look over old images taken on my first two trips to Peru. The scope of agricultural land that has been abandoned is almost impossible to comprehend—it’s visible in this image across the valley—lines almost appearing to shift like an optical illusion [...]