Folding Bike Photography in Detroit-part 6: What is Next for this Project?

Accounts from my journal, written while I photographed Detroit for three weeks during the end of summer 2016—or writing later. Quakers to Refineries (photos) Added November 23, 2016 Johnny’s Neighborhood (movie) I find myself at a crossroads with this project, nearly 7 years since I began it. Now I cannot decide what to do next—consider the active photography […]

Words at an exhibition—part two (concluding)

The conclusion of my attempt to explicate what I attempt to do photographically. A BRIEF EARLY HISTORY I began when my father gave me a camera, probably a cheap Kodak Brownie, at the age of 7. Frank Schiel, 1964 c, my father, photo by Skip Schiel Caldwell School playground, Chicago’s Southside, 1950 c., photo by Skip […]

Words at an exhibition—part one

You might find it an interesting exercise to talk about your process as a photographer. Who are you as a person? What draws you to make an image? Who are your influences? One of the points of exhibiting work on the walls of the Friends Center (in Cambridge MA) is to get to know one another better. […]

Detroit Up and Down, 2014 – 2 (A Story of Three Police Stations)

Excerpts from my journal during a 3 week sojourn in Detroit Michigan, late winter 2014, searching for the seeds of the New Miracle of Detroit Touring Detroit with Colin Connaire, a police officer formerly stationed in Detroit, we visited three police stations—one abandoned and vandalized, the second renovated into a nonprofit arts center and farm and garden […]

As an Artist, How Do I Survive and Thrive?

© All text & photos (unless otherwise noted) copyright Skip Schiel, 2004-2010 A series from my earlier writing, not always directly about Palestine-Israel, this an attempt to understand my journey of discovery that continues to enthrall and mystify me. Written September 10, 2002, revised February 9, 2010 PHOTOS There is a principle which is pure, […]

Art & Social Change—A Hypothetical Interview

© All text & photos (unless otherwise noted) copyright Skip Schiel, 2004-2010 A series from my earlier writing, not always directly about Palestine-Israel, this an attempt to understand my journey of discovery that continues to enthrall and mystify me. Written 2003, revised 2010 With gratitude to students at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina who […]

The rising of the light: Gaza and Me, via Israel

All photos made in January 2008 Complete set Erez crossing between Israel and Gaza, January 2008 Gaza City To enter Gaza one needs a permit from the Israeli authorities, the District Coordination Office (DCO) for Gaza. And one needs to apply thru an international non-governmental organization, a NGO. Since 2004, I’ve gotten a permit thru […]

The rising of the light: Burquin & Jenin

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. —Lorraine Hansberry Jenin Burquin Jenin Excerpts from my journal during a three month journey of photographic discovery in the Land of Troubles Photos July 17, 2009, Friday, Jenin Creative Cultural Center: Home again, in the […]

The rising of the light: Old & New

800 year old mosque in the center of Jenin Office of The Freedom Theater in Jenin refugee camp Excerpts from my journal during a three month journey of photographic discovery in the Land of Troubles Photos Shop (Jenin), a video July 14, 2009, Tuesday, Jenin Creative Cultural Center: No dreams—dreadful. But a spectacular lilting cloud […]

The rising of the light: In and around Jenin

Excerpts from my journal during a three month journey of photographic discovery in the Land of Troubles Photos July 11, 2009, Friday, Jenin Creative Cultural Center: Plans yesterday shifted moment to moment, as happened on the Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage when it disturbed me so much, but now, aging, mellowing, I seem not […]

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