I work with iPhone cameras without manipulation. I've been called a 'visual poet,' which feels right to me. In addition to LOOKING AT MEXICO / MEXICO LOOKS BACK.; other photo books include I'VE BEEN WALKING: Los Angeles Photographs (2021), and the 2016-17 monograph OVERSPILLING WORLD : The Photographs of Janet Sternburg (2017 ) with essays by Wim Wenders ("Photographers don't have eyes at the back of their head; Janet Sternburg does"); Catherine Opie, Pepe Karmel. et al. All of these books were published by Distanz Verlag (Berlin. My work has been seen in solo shows, at the USC Fisher Museum of Art, (2018); Contrasto Galleria, Milan (2018), as well as in a group show at ICP (New York. Also in a commissioned full-building installation at the Seoul Institute of Arts, Korea; and a touring exhibition sponsored by the American Embassy in Germany in Berlin, Heidelberg, Munich, Freiburg, Hamburg, Nuremberg. Portfolios in journals, including Aperture and Art Journal (cover). Forthcoming, March 2025, an exhibition at Alessia Paladini Gallery, Milan, which represents my work. From my mid-life beginning as a photographer to now, my central concern has been the multi-dimensionality of all that exists. This has been true of my previous literary books. It's who I am. I believe that one does not need image manipulation to convey this; as I write in my essay for Overspilling World, it is there for the seeing.
