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Doorway, Bou Inania Madrasa, Fez, Morocco, 2007

Sean Winslow — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 19:01:44 +0000

A door into the mosque at Bou Inania Madrasa, a lavishily-decorated Marinid building in the Medina of Fez.

In London. . .

Sean Winslow — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:05:28 +0000

I am in London for the week and Oxford for the weekend, consulting Ethiopic manuscripts. I will not be updating the site and will rarely check my email during this time.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Sean Winslow — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:00:14 +0000

A very Happy Thanksgiving to all my American readers, and especially my family and friends back in the States, most of whom I have not seen in over a year. I am looking forward to returning to California over the holidays (23rd December to 12th January), and will hope to see you then. Also to my friends here in Ethiopia, at the U. S. Embassy Addis Ababa, who have kindly hosted me and whom I will likely also miss having Thanksgiving with, due to a planned Axum trip.

Take care, all.

Leaving on Research

Sean Winslow — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:08:49 +0000

I am heading out in the morning for Lalibela, Gonder, and Andabet, working on research. I will be posting intermittently or not at all for the next few weeks, as I will likely only have internet access for a small portion of the trip.

Ethiopian Manuscript Heritage Problems and Preservation Strategies

Sean Winslow — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:07:57 +0000

I recently lectured to both the first- and second-year classes of Heritage Preservation and Paleoenvironment students at Mekele University on the problems facing manuscript (and more general) conservation and preservation in Ethiopia. While not a full workshop (which I hope to conduct in November, if I can find funding to get back to Ethiopia), it was nevertheless an introduction to my work, the field, and the preservation/conservation challenges facing those tasked with preserving the knowledge and physical objects associated with the Ethiopian manuscript tradition.

While I have not the time to reprise the whole presentation, I will link here to the powerpoint portion, which outlines the talk, even as it only represents a small amount of what I said (I loathe talks where the presenter reads out his own slides, and will not do it myself). If this is of interest, I can go on at greater length, and if anyone finds this kind of material absolutely essential to their program, I am available to give this talk anywhere you care to pay my travel expenses to. . .

http://www.larkvi.com/misc/MekeleMssPresPres01.ppt

Update & Flickr Integration

Sean Winslow — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:30:03 +0000

I have updated to the latest version of WordPress, which should be essentially seamless on the user end. A more interesting update is that , starting with the last three posts, I am converting all the photos from being hosted on my site to being hosted by Flickr. What this means is that you can click on any photo to get to its Flickr page, and there you can leave a comment, favorite it, or use the sorting and search tools to look through my entire stream. I am going to try to work backwards and make all the photos behave like this, in order to better integrate the various presentations of my photos. I know that a number of people read this stream through imported notes in Facebook, and I assume it will work there with new notes, though it currently doesn’t with any note already imported.

I am still working on making my various Flickr sets appear in pages, so that I will have dynamically-generated sets on this site.

Sean Winslow — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:16:17 +0000

I promise that this is not going to become a forum for re-posting articles from The Online Photographer, but I thought this article and Mike Johnson’s response might interest the historians in my audience, as it is a photographic puzzle that really gets to the heart of the way that pre-conceptions, agendas, and lack of expertise can seriously impair our understanding of a historical source.

For the record, I am not particularly convinced by the ‘ON’ then ‘OFF’ argument, if for no better reason than that the former just ‘looks wrong,’ and I think I hold with those who suspect arrangement. The motivation of a person that stays hours at a place to produce an image less-illustrative of the point they were apparently trying to make is not clear to me either, so I think the psychology of the man does enter into it.

Kenji Nagai

Sean Winslow — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:04:27 +0000

Even if you do not follow photography news, I think you should take a look at this post on The Online Photographer, and follow the link to the story. These are the risks that journalists take to tell us of the policies and acts of some of the world’s most repressive regimes. I can only hope that this story, and Mr. Nagai’s dying photos, can help ramp up the pressure on the Burmese government to end military rule.

Original Post at The Online Photographer

A New Start

Sean Winslow — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:42:26 +0000

Sean Winslow at Point Lobos, January 2007 (camera held by Neal Winslow)

In retrospect, this image would have been considerably better if I have been holding the ccamera away from my face, but since I handed the camera off after composing it (it is a picture of me, after all), I did not notice this problem until later review. Still, the light an color that day was exccellent, and I thought I should start the blog with a recent photo of the author. The next post will be my favorite image of that day.
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Much delayed, this blog is now active, and I plan to be posting to it regularly from now on, at least one photo a week, hopefully more. This is a project to keep me working on my photography and to share it with my family, friends, and anyone else who may be interested. I will also be introducing other categories as this matures, covering my other interests. The RSS feed may be found at the base of this page, and I encourage readers to follow the blog this way.