by Darin Boville
by Darin Boville
My American Nukes: Photographs and Texts by Darin Boville show is up until July 5th–you have plenty of time to go! It’s at the Nuclear Museum, in Albuquerque, New Mexico (its formal name is the National Museum of Nuclear History…
A little over four years ago I started this blog with no better plan other than I wanted to do a “Covid Project,” and I began by writing a post where I begged for a bigger camera: I want a…
The hike up to the peak of Cima Dome is not long from the off-road trail that runs along the side of Tuetonia Peak but it is misleading. I parked my FJ Cruiser in a small campground turnout and looked…
A few unprocessed images from my recent trip to the Mojave Desert.
The stack grows a little shorter. Travels Across the Roof of the World: A Himalayan Memoir by William and Anne Frej.Additional texts by Edwin Bernbaum, Michael Tobias, and Jane Gray Morrison.Published in 2022 by George F. Thompson Publishing in Association…
In 2004 I moved with my wife and two young daughters from the suburbs of Washington, DC to the California coast, taking a month to travel in a winding, zig-zag path. We had a plan—each of us had made of…
Hotel rooms, at night in the dark, are alive with light. I made these images on the 10,000 mile cross-country tip I undertook this past fall. Each night, no matter how late I arrived at a hotel, no matter how…
In deference to certain workplace environments, I’ve edited the quote (just below) to obscure an offensive word. Click on the link in the quote to see the word. The big boulder on Observatory hill, which is the largest of its…
In 2005 I found myself passing through Albuquerque and thought I’d stop by the Petroglyph National Monument. It’s not very big. Maybe at one time it used to be out there, on its own in some pristine setting, but now…
After going through William Frej’s exciting photobook, Maya Ruins Revisited (see my review here), that excitement carried on and I wanted to dig deeper. Do you want more, too? The first place to start is the most obvious: One essay…