"Passing By The Way” is a short film of pictures stories made with my film cameras in the past 50 years. These are black and white photographs made during journeys to meet people locally and globally who are engaged in social justice struggles. All of these struggles continue today. You will partner with me at the Occupy Wall Street action, South Africa emerging from Apartheid. Viet Nam recovering. Democracy actions at the White House. Central America and Middle East revolutions. The “Troubles” in Northern Ireland and more.

Rapidly developing technology is changing the ways we work, and the ways we think about work. Today, there is the alternative information, artificial intelligence (A.I.) controversy. The four-day work-week push. The working from home in your pajamas image and the popularity of Zoom connections, which among other things saves gas. Then there is correcting the gender imbalances of the workplace. All these affect what work means to many. Sometimes forgotten in this mix of change are the workers and artisans whose life passions, skills, and cultures remain with the handmade, the love of tools, the making of objects--of artists and performances. This exhibit, “Working Hands,” is a series of picture-story portraits and films that can be viewed as a reminder. It can be a glimpse at the work around us--often surprisingly nearby--where the human hand is the worker's main tool. All the portrait subjects in this exhibition involve an intimacy of engagement and composition awareness. Often, a person I photographed for one of these images led me to the next.

A documentary filmed in late 2005 that brings the viewer close to the living conditions and unresolved problems for Palestinian refugees in the Lebanon camps. Viewers see the camps with a focus on the issues of health, unemployment, education and the cultural memory of this community of refugees expelled in 1948 and 1967 from their homes in historic Palestine. Producer: Red Hill Films Alternate Focus is available on the Dish Network, Free Speech TV, Channel 9415, Saturdays at 8:00pm EST and on cable stations near you. Check website for details.

A documentary filmed in late 2005 that brings the viewer close to the living conditions and unresolved problems for Palestinian refugees in the Lebanon camps. Viewers see the camps with a focus on the issues of health, unemployment, education and the cultural memory of this community of refugees expelled in 1948 and 1967 from their homes in historic Palestine. Alternate Focus is available on the Dish Network, Free Speech TV, Channel 9415, Saturdays at 8:00pm EST and on cable stations near you. Check website for details.

A film that showcases the different issues important to practicing democracy at this divided time. Ordinary Americans in all our neighborhoods are stepping up to defend and polish a delicate democracy under attack by the current resident of the White House and his allies.

A film that showcases the different issues important to practicing democracy at this divided time. Ordinary Americans in all our neighborhoods are stepping up to defend and polish a delicate democracy under attack by the current resident of the White House and his allies.