Jul 6, 2011
In November 2010 I photographed aging prisoners in Angola State Penitentiary in Louisiana. After the GSA meeting in New Orleans I drove 150 miles through the wetlands, past Baton Rouge, then north up Highway 66. The facility was surrounded by 12-foot razor-topped...
Aug 28, 2010
Many people have asked how I took the high quality photos of wounds in my recently published Pocket Guide to Pressure Ulcers. I’ve been photographing pressure ulcers and other skin conditions in elderly persons since my geriatric fellowship in 1985. The photos in...
Jul 18, 2010
I just got back from a road trip through Peru, which was my first trip to South America. On the way I discovered riches in people and culture, but one of my most unexpected experiences was getting a taste of ancient Peruvian medicine. Until the advent of science and...
Jun 26, 2010
My aging related art was recently covered in a post written by Paula Span in the New York Times blog, The New Old Age. It was gratifying to spend time with this outstanding journalist and share my images, many of which are finally being shown after years of storage. ...
Jun 14, 2010
I recently served as keynote speaker at the American Medical Directors Association annual meeting in Long Beach, California. The reason AMDA picked me was my photos of aging, which you can view on my online portfolio. The title of my talk was Geriatrics, Humanistic...
Jun 1, 2010
The June, 2010 cover of The Gerontologist features one of my many images of aging. I have been photographing human aging for the past twenty years, and this magazine has been publishing my work as cover art since 1996. Links to more Gerontologist covers as well as...
