dealing with vagaries

Underwater but on land.  Above Singapore but below the surface.

Just landed in Singapore for a few days to do a couple of talks for The National Geographic Channel. Made the jumps from LEX/DCA/IAD/LHR/SIN in one long, transcontinental streak, but at some point over the Smoky Mountains shot this image on the pocketable iPhone. I like the pixelation – in fact, it’s given me an idea for a new essay…

Check out this cool write-up in the Boston Globe A&E section on a group show my “Yichang, China” image is part of at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts.

From Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Mark Feeney:

“Jeff Hutchens’s “Yichang, China’’ shows some orange peels on a car seat. That doesn’t sound very promising — or Chinese. But the moody expressivity of citrus on gray surface is both elegant and arresting. Hutchens’s handsome use of color reminds us just why oranges are called oranges…Hutchens makes the banal seem exotic…”.

Farmland. Maryland.

The geometry of Gulu (Uganda).

In keeping with the aesthetic of my last post – I thought I’d toss up a portrait I shot last weekend.

Two images I came across tonight in an old folder from my “Travel Anonymous” series. A random hotel room in Australia from an assignment in 2003. I remember I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn’t remember where I was – just too much time on the road…

Photo District News homepage- an image I shot of Anderson Cooper and virologist Dr. Nathan Wolfe in the Democratic Republic of Congo…

North Carolina’s coast, following Thanksgiving turkey. Projectile droplets. Splayed-out swimmers.

Photo District News article – Diving into Digital.