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Gaza: "Worse than a prison—a grave yard" (January 2008)
(click on individual images for different sets)

News of
Israeli attacks
(Dec 27, 2008)

Eye witness accounts

The Hanukah Massacres: A New Year’s Greeting from Gaza (blog)

A thank you from Gaza

All images, text & design © Skip Schiel 1990 - 2008


Through photography

Through photography I love: daughters, friends, the earth. Through photography I am angry: at injustice, pomposity, violence, deceit, ignorance, greed. Through photography: I am perverse, critical, analytic, emotive, radiant, clumsy, elegant, adventurous, irreverent, romantic. Through photography: I am a person of the world, of the cosmos. And I am a recluse, an isolate, a monk.

For all this I am very grateful.

I praise my photographic lineage--ancestors who have taught me, contemporaries who cooperate with me and successors who might benefit from what I've attempted to do. I thank the great spirit, god, the higher power, the ground of being, the still small voice inside, the pulse of the universe for allowing me--perhaps--to be aligned with this force, rather than opposed to it.

Photography is my main form of prayer--I pray outward to the beings, things, forces I photograph. I pray inward to my own center by sensing the light within. I pray to others by showing them my photos. I link with the light, both inward & outward. Photography fuses my many tendencies, it allows expression of my various urgencies.

May these images better balance the plethora of main media images we constantly experience: catastrophe, despair, ruination, death. May they help broaden the palette of art to include hope, faith, fun, exhilaration, antics, joy, friendship, worship, love. In the midst of a troubled time, may they affirm the life force.

--Skip Schiel, October 19, 2007

Manifesto: of light and image


 

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(with itineraary about the just completed SE USA tour)

About Skip Schiel

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summer 2009—"Rage against the dying of the Light"

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Boston responds to the Hannakah Massacres in Gaza-2
Added January 3, 2008

Boston responds to the Hannakah Massacres in Gaza-1

Added December 30, 2008

Winter 2008-Spring 2009 tour of slide shows & print exhibits
Portions of the South & New England

Traveling slide shows & exhibitions

Levant 2007-2008—new photos
October 25 - January 23, 2008

Videos about Palestine-Israel
Added February 28, 200

Photographic presentations about Palestine-Israel:

On-line albums & reports

The Living Waters of Palestine & Israel

Archive: the Levant in the USA, 2007-2008

Archive: writing & interviews

More information
about Israel & Palestine social change organizations & media—updated June 24, 2008

Quakers in Israel & Palestine—Timeline
March 2007

Testimonials

Links

Christmas
Added December 29, 2008

Snow, winter, Christmas
Added December 23, 200

On the road in the southland-3
Added December 18, 2008

On the road in the southland-2
Added December 10, 2008

Please Pause the Tape-a video of a drive thru nativity
Added December 8, 2008

On the road in the southland-1
Added December 6, 2008

By train, plane, & foot
Added November 8, 2008

California: Live oaks & fire
Added November1, 2008

Juneau Alaska-6-Tommy Sands plays Juneau
Added October 20, 2008

Juneau Alaska-5-To Tenakee by ferry
Added October 12, 2008

Juneau Alaska-4-North Douglas forest & shore
Added October 7, 2008

Juneau Alaska-3-Crabbing
Added October 7, 2008

Juneau Alaska-2-Obamarama
Added October 5, 2008

Juneau Alaska-1-Rainforest
Added October 3, 2008

Flight—Boston to Seattle
Added September 26, 2008

2008 (earlier)

2007

2006

2005

2004

One Sky
1998-2000
Delta Passage: A Journey Home
1999
Visions of a New South Africa
1999
Bread & Puppet Theater
1980-1985
Auschwitz to Hiroshima: A Pilgrimage, 1995
1995
Mitakuye Oyasin:
All My Relations

1983-1990
Quabbin Reservoir
1990-present

One Family
1967-present
Revised Aug 15, 07

Broadsides
1995-1998
Other on-line exhibits
Step by Step, Buddhist-Led Peace & Justice Walks
2004
A Digital Timeline—A History of Digital Technology
Beginnings to 2005
The Troubles —
Reflections
& Actions Post 911

2001-2002

What Digital Technology Means to Photography—
page 1
page 2

Making the Invisible Visible: Prisons in the United States
2002-2006
Scent of Earth
1980-present
 

Weblog

The Freedom & Justice Crier, summer 2008 (editor & author)
Added August 20, 2008

The Freedom & Justice Crier, spring 2008 (co-editor & author)
Added May 15, 2008

Other writing

Winter photography workshops at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education

Schiel's teaching at Harvard's Landscape Institute resumes fall 2009

My Teaching Philosophy

Photo exercise sets:

Photo Resources (Boston area)