In 1991 I endeavored to take my first photography workshop on documentary photography from Mary Ellen Mark. This workshop was conducted at the
Santa Fe Photographic Workshops.
I needed a subject for my workshop project, and unsuccessfully tried to get ahold of
Linda. It didn't work out at the time, but I was later able to spend a couple of days photographing
while she demonstrated her method of healing touch to a class of students from Chris Griscom's Nizhoni school.
What strikes me about this photograph is the pattern arrayed in the leaves in the tree behind her,
it's the same image I photographed a few years earlier carved into the bear paws on a totem pole
(for more select this link) in British Columbia.
I'm not sure who to thank for this image, Linda for making that space available, or Mary Ellen for seriously doubting
that I could ever take it. I expect that I owe them both in their own ways for this image.
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