max s. gerber(the latest shot)

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 a [...]

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 [...]

last week kim and tashena visited me. tashena lives in san diego now, where she takes amazingly lovely, ethereal and poetic pictures. kim was visiting from tucson.
kim is micah’s father. tashena is micah’s sister.

it’s hard to believe it’s been almost ten years since the last time i saw micah, almost ten years since he died. [...]

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 [...]

last night was the opening of the starlight foundation’s “indomitable spirit” show at the ACE gallery in los angeles. several months ago i was asked to donate a print from the hearts book to this show, along with about 75 other photographers. the starlight foundation is a charity that benefits seriously ill children, and if [...]

i have a different sort of relationship with doctors than most of my friends. doctors have always been a part of my life, as long as i can remember, though admittedly much less so now that i’m an adult. maybe my parents were nervous when i was a kid, maybe things were more precarious, maybe [...]

every once in a while i get an email or a letter from a random stranger that just floors me. i got an email like that yesterday, from a woman named tara who is the mother of a 7 year old boy with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. she was nice enough to give me permission [...]