Quarantine Portrait Series: Another Hospital Visit with Mike

This is the second day in a row that I saw my brother Mike*. I saw him yesterday, but before that I hadn’t seen him since 2013 at his geriatric group home. Now he’s in hospital on the east coast and I’m on the west coast. Mike is nonverbal, low functioning and autistic. I almost […]

Quarantine Portrait Series: Hospital Visit with Brother Mike

I haven’t seen my older brother Mike since 2013. He lives in a geriatric group home on the east coast and I live on the west coast. Mike is autistic, nonverbal and low functioning. The staff takes good care of him, sending him to the hospital when needed. My younger brother Dave alerted me to […]

Vintage Photo: AIDS Protest Poster, NYC, September 1988

I was surprised to see this AIDS epidemic protest poster among my early photographs.  This poster notes the slow response of the Regan administration to the AIDS epidemic. Interesting to note that the same players active in AIDS research back in the 1980s are active in the fight against COVID today.  The slow response to […]