Essays

I usually combine photographs with an essay I’m writing unless the essay is not about an object or a place or something observed. If that’s the case, I may be writing to figure something out rather than to observe. This page contains links, which are the same as those in the menu above, to essays based in observation and the experience of a specific place.

Drift

Ride

Conversation between Cecilia Dougherty and Yvonne Rainer, Bard College, 1997, published 2018

On being sick: disability and chronic illness

On public transit

Street Food, NYC

At the Zen Center

Links to published articles and essays

The photograph above was taken aboard the Staten Island ferry during the pandemic. The ferry was almost empty. Two tourists, me, and a scattering of others on our way to St. George.