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Slava Ukraini

Slava Ukraini

Slava Ukraini! 6 March 2022 STOP PUTIN - STOPPT DEN KRIEG Crowds gathered in front of the Russian Embassy in Berlin to demand an immediate stop to Putin's senseless war in Ukraine Resources to help Refugees: Red Cross Germany Volunteering, Donating & Refugee...

Black Lives Matter – Berlin 2020

Black Lives Matter – Berlin 2020

31 May 2020, Amidst the global pandemic, Berliners, with facemasks to protect from Covid-19, showed their solidarity in protest against the ongoing police brutality in USA. SPEAK THEIR NAMES GEORGE FLOYD, BREONNA TAYLOR, TONY MCDADE, AHMAUD ARBERY & countless...

Behind the Scenes at NYC Fashion Week

Behind the Scenes at NYC Fashion Week

SS-16 Julianna Bass. New York City Fashion Week In 2016 I flew from Berlin to NYC to shoot backstage documentary photos for the beautifully talented designer, Julianna Bass.  Going through the shots from that day, I found a few never seen before... JULIANNA BASS  

The Call of the Wild

The Call of the Wild

The sinewy leopard, a being of sensuality, strength, intelligence, and perseverance is an animal of powerful shamanic resonance in myth and literature. -  C MPL T UNKN WN *as published for the designer*  

Patricia

Patricia

San Francisco, California. Patricia is dance family. From SF Carnaval to Energia do Samba, her energy & light are infectious. She's also one of the smartest women I've ever met.  

Double Negative

Double Negative

"There is nothing there, yet it is still a sculpture."-Michael Heizer Nevada, 2007 - A pilgrimage to one of the most famous Land Art pieces in the world. Michael Heizer's Double Negative. Referring to the negative space created by the displacement of 244,000 tons of...

Berlin Against Nazis

Berlin Against Nazis

27 May 2018, over 72,000 people gathered to protest the AfD & Pegida march in Berlin. Club culture was on display as were families and communities united against hate.  StopptDenHass: "We stand for a society in which anyone, regardless of appearance, belief and...

Collaborations with Choreographers

Collaborations with Choreographers

In Berlin, I was inspired by my collaboration with Joseph Stewart, choreographer and dancer, and his gifted colleagues to film his new works in progress.  Scroll for images and video trailers: VOID H E L I U M // TRAILER  

Women’s March Berlin, 2018

Women’s March Berlin, 2018

On January 21, 2018, crowds gathered in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany to commemorate the one year anniversary of the Women's March in solidarity with the movement across the globe.   THE FUTURE IS FEMALE THE FUTURE IS INTERSECTIONAL THE FUTURE IS...

Woman’s March Oakland, 2017

Woman’s March Oakland, 2017

On January 21, 2017, hundreds of thousands took to the streets in Oakland, California (& millions across the country) in a historic march for human rights, civil liberties, & social justice for all. Following the great tradition of protest in California, the older...

Taylor Wessing & the Portrait

Taylor Wessing & the Portrait

The Taylor Wessing Prize. It’s not often I submit images to competition, but the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize via the National Portrait Gallery in London is a prestigious award I couldn’t resist. Did I get in? No. But I got through many, many gates....

Podcast: Chasing Cheetahs

Podcast: Chasing Cheetahs

Podcast on MakeYouFamous: Chasing Cheetahs with Marcy Mendelson Marcy Mendelson has been documenting in advocating for wildlife in Africa for a decade. In this shot for media organizations like National Geographic and a far. She runs Geo-watch and runs safaris to...

I am not a Visual Storyteller

I am not a Visual Storyteller

Samburu Warriors celebrate their new status in the community in Northern Kenya, 2013 (uncropped / unretouched) I am not a visual storyteller. Let me type that again: I am not a Visual Storyteller. I am a photographer, a photojournalist, a fine-art photographer, a...

Prague’s Velvet Revolution 25th Anniversary

Prague’s Velvet Revolution 25th Anniversary

November 17, 2014… Prague, The Czech people celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Velvet Revolution with demonstrations, street theater and political commentary. Demonstrators show symbolic red cards to Czech President Milos Zeman. The Velvet Carnival offers the...

Mauerfall * 25 Years * Lichtgrenze

Mauerfall * 25 Years * Lichtgrenze

View from the East Side Gallery 9th of November 2014 Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, 8,000 illuminated balloons trace the course of the former border that once separated East and West. The light installation commemorating the fall of the Wall is...

Announcing Metaphor Images

Announcing Metaphor Images

I am proud to announce joining Metaphor Images: Metaphor Images is an international documentary photographer`s collective. Metaphor is a photographic agency and archive specialising in contemporary issues beyond current media concerns. It`s contributing photographers...

Collaborative Work circa 2001

Collaborative Work circa 2001

Collaboration with writer & poet, Ben Pleasants for his piece ‘My Blue Sweater’. See it & read it in the back pages of his work Visceral Bukowski. 

Sex Guitars n’ Rock n’ Roll

Sex Guitars n’ Rock n’ Roll

I love film. Shot in 2003 my dear friend’s custom guitar fashion show at the Red Devil Lounge in San Francisco. Nikon n90s. FILM. Shot on film in '03 a raucous rock n' roll fashion show in San Francisco featuring custom guitars

I Love Film

I Love Film

A brief respite from the landscapes, and living in the city calls for a human in the shot… a young man whose timeless image reminds me of classic North Beach, San Francisco. The cafes, hills, fog, poets…. all images shot on 35mm film with a Nikon D90s.

London Calling

London Calling

After winning the London Calling 2009 Competition, I was interviewed by MyArtSpace. Q. Marcy, you have been selected as one of the top winners of the MyArtSpace London Calling competition. The juror panel for London Calling included Vanessa DesClaux (The TATE Modern),...

Roma, 1993

Roma, 1993

In the fall of ’93, I was studying in Florence, Italy as a metalsmithing & jewelry major. I lived with an Italian woman on a narrow winding street between the Basilica of Santa Croce and the Uffizi Gallery. A benefit of studying in Florence were field trips to...

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Currently I'm working on my new film, Chasing Cheetah, based in Namibia; a documentary road trip searching for the cheetah in the midst of human-wildlife conflict.