max s. gerber(the latest shot)

last sunday morning i got a phone call from sebastian. i hadn’t seen him in almost eight years, i think, but we were facebook friends. he said apologetically, “my wife said i was crazy to call someone at 9:30 in the morning on a sunday, but i thought it’d be all right.” it was fine. [...]

i returned home last week to find this new year’s card from sydney. sydney is a teenager with congenital heart disease, and about a year ago she wrote to me telling me she was saving up money to buy my book. so i sent her one, instead. a year later sydney still remembers me. thanks, [...]

not everyone runs on batteries, but i do. (thanks to jonathan for the concerned shout-out)

i have looked like this for two thousand, eight hundred and one days. after thursday, i’ll look different than i ever have before.

home from the conference in florida – a success, i think – and scrambling through a busy week. another busy week to follow after this one. there’s much to update here but i’ve been distracted by offline things, scheduling shoots and logistical matters. soon, though, i promise. in the meantime, this was the view in [...]

this week i’m headed off to orlando to the cardiology 2010 conference. i’ll be speaking and signing books there saturday night (2.13.10) at the disney contemporary resort. if you’re in the neighborhood please stop by and say hello! as part of my presentation to the conference i made this short film. this conference is mostly [...]

at some point yesterday, stuck in traffic driving home from visiting mario and ali, i realized that i’ve been photographing them off an on for ten years. that’s a whole decade. i tried to think of who else – aside from maybe my family – i had spent that many years photographing. there aren’t many [...]

back in september i got an email from sydney. sydney is 15 years old, a congenital heart patient, like me. unlike me, sydney had her first pacemaker implanted when she was only 15 hours old (i was eight (years)). she said, “I am saving money to buy your book because it is the most incredible [...]

in about ten weeks i’ll be an uncle. that is, i’ll be an uncle officially. my brother is having a baby. it feels like i’ve been an uncle for a very long time. even though i don’t see my many honorary nieces and nephews very often these days, there’s a strange sort of closeness that [...]

i’m going to be at the nextmed MMVR (medicine meets virtual reality) conference next week in long beach, california, if anyone wants to stop by and say hello. come down to the hyatt regency, i’m sure it’s lovely. i’ve been asked to put up an exhibit of prints from my book, my heart vs. the [...]