bill foreman, “san diego”, march 7th, 2010 from Max S. Gerber on Vimeo. bill foreman writes some of the best songs you’ll ever hear. heartbreaking, complex, layered and soulful songs. i was lucky enough to get the chance to record one of them when he was in town a few months back, crashing on my [...]

i probably watch more TV than is good for me. certainly my DVR has more of a backlog at any given point than i can comfortably manage. if i were a different kind of person i’d blame my parents – a showbiz family who, as i was growing up, not only had a television set [...]

lately most of the things i do that seem to work out do so in no small part because of the influence, assistance and efforts of paul. for nearly every picture i publish there’s a similar shot with paul in it, standing in place of the final subject. here are a collection of those, from [...]

some photo shoots happen so quickly i don’t have time to figure out much about the people in front of the camera. very often a shoot occurs when the story is not quite finalized, and i rarely get to see a draft of anything before the subject and i share our sparse few minutes together. [...]

it seems my mother has appointed me the unofficial, implied future custodian of the photo archives of the family. there really is nothing more sacred to her than the giant stash of photos overflowing a box in her living room. most days when i visit my mother i return home with envelopes full of things. [...]