Inauguration Diary: a Politics of Inclusion & of Civic Intelligence (photo essay)

Millions of people are expected to gather on the National Mall, between the west face of the Capitol Building and the Lincoln Memorial; security is expected to be without any known precedent, and temperatures are not likely to rise above freezing… should we go? Should we go, and if we do, should we go as citizens, or as journalists? If millions of people can brave the crowds, the security and the cold, to witness an historic moment of such sweeping resonance, then why can’t we?

Ripe for Change: What will this season of turning bring? (photos + essay)

Seasonal photography, by Café Sentido editor J.E. Robertson, a visual essay about a season of historic, urgent & uneasy change
A “wave election”, with public sentiment clearly moving in a new direction, calling for principled governance, with a new focus on progressive aims… economic crisis, having built up over a decade, hidden in the esoteric workings [...]

Remota desoladora, máscara del lenguaje

máscara de matiz y de vidrio
r e m o t a i n c i s i v a t r i s t e y a p t a
te matizamos queriendo ir más allá
entre las angustias —y soberbias— y humildades
más implacables
con pies que no andan
que son glándulas de mitología
de esmeraldas que cerebrales nievan
s o [...]

Contraluz : un estudio en luz, sombra, forma y metáfora

Una colección de fotos, de ambiente, de textura, de la materia prima sensual de la vida de cada día, Contraluz explora el potencial de acercarse a los significados escondidos a través del proceso de mirar. Este libro es una antología de las obras fotográficas del autor Joseph Robertson, plasmadas en cálidos matices dúo-tonales, buscando el [...]