The Tear-Catcher / Tel Aviv
What catches my eye first upon landing at Ben Gurion International Airport, and after having been asked twice if I…
Tales of a City
The Golden Sands / Las Vegas
The autumn setting sun merges with a flow of lights over the dry California desert as we drive into Las…
Beyond the Underground / Warsaw
Krszysztof Kieślowski captured the labyrinthine passages underneath Warsaw’s city center in his television feature Pedestrian Subway. It was 1973.
The Familiar Stranger / Tehran
“You came from a strange, unknown city; you came on a white horse of kindness,” sings the velvet voice of…
The Vancouver Model
I land in Vancouver on a fairly gray and cold mid-March afternoon. The taxi passes skyscrapers amid a backdrop of…
Los Angeles, year zero
Winter in America I land at LAX from Paris in a hazy mid-January 2014 afternoon with some summer clothes, many…