Best of Pictures 2011
The holidays are approaching and 2011 is coming to a close. This is the time of year I look back on all the pictures I made throughout the year and ask myself are any of them worth entering in a contest. I’m never satisfied with my work and am often frustrated that I didn’t do more. I tried to keep my selection this year to ten images but I couldn’t get past 11. So here are my favorite pictures of 2011. These are in a visual arrangement not chronological.
Starting off with a bang, the birth of our second child. Our boy Hudson a.k.a. Sonny was born on July 25. I documented the whole pregnancy and labor with a fifty-five year old Nikon S2 rangefinder. In this image my wife Jennifer labors in the jacuzzi tub of our room at the birthing center at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan.
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“Love Endures Even Cancer” on the New York Times
The first time I met Gavin he was sitting on a hospital bed at NYU with a titanium halo screwed into his skull in four places. He was preparing for a procedure called gamma knife in which gamma rays are very precisely targeted at cancerous tumors. Gavin had two metastases in his brain and many more throughout his lungs, liver, pancreas and bones. But even with all this weighing on him Gavin never stopped smiling, never stopped joking and never stopped living.
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