Category Archives: Photography
Philadelphia today
by ST McNeil
Categories: Jordan, Middle East, Photography • Tags: Amman, Jordan, Philadelphia, Roman Empire
The east bank of a dead sea
by ST McNeil
Categories: Jordan, Middle East, Photography • Tags: Dead Sea, Jordan, رحلة
Grand Canyon astrophotography
by ST McNeil
Categories: Photography, USA • Tags: Arizona, Grand Canyon
Brew Pour Drink
by ST McNeil
Barrio Bewery head brewer Abe Figueroa and manager Reyna Rodriguez talk about beer in Tucson, Arizona. Another multimedia project for Advanced Reporting at the University of Arizona, this mini-documentary was shot over two days at the Barrio Brewery in Tuscon, Arizona. I hung out with Reyna at the bar one late afternoon, and then met Abe at dawn for a six-hour shoot inside the brewery during the mashing process. Two things I would change if deadlines parental and academic weren’t [...]
Categories: Photography, USA • Tags: Arizona, Barrio Brewery, beer, brewing, documentary, fortune, Tucson
مغرب الصغيرة
by ST McNeil
Categories: Photography, USA
Jazz, Rap and Oud in Gaza
by ST McNeil
From what everyone tells me, the jazz, rap and oud concert in The Gallery, Gaza’s premier venue, was abnormal. Since Hamas took over, music has been limited in the isolated territory of coastal Palestine. Rappers were forced to sign contracts stating they wouldn’t spit rhymes, according to rumour. But two nights ago, I and about two hundred others, listened to a rocking German jazz band. The all-female band enraptured the male-majority audience with their chops as well and blonde locks. [...]
Categories: Egypt, Middle East, PalestineIsrael, Photography • Tags: blind oud player, Gazan music, German jazz, video
Meena Al Gaza
by ST McNeil
I nearly fell on my ass boarding the official boat of the Gazan Shurta Buhayra, or coast guard. Cackling with laughter and telling me to sit down, the two-man crew spun the boat around and headed out towards the north east, open corner of Gaza’s only port. Roughly built like a square – a northern wall of a small pier ending in a ruined lighthouse and a southern wall forming a ninety-degree angle with a concrete-slab breaker – the port is full [...]
Categories: PalestineIsrael, Photography • Tags: capsize, Gaza coast guard, Gaza port, water pollution
Flag-waving in Tahrir video
by ST McNeil
A short video clip from Tahrir Square yesterday: flag waving while shouting “the masses want an end to the system”.
Categories: Africa North, Photography • Tags: 25 January Revolution, 8 July, Cairo, Egypt, Israeli activists, Tahrir Square, thawura
Baubles and trinkets of language
by ST McNeil
Old Cairo Bazaar underneath the labyrinthine alleys of the Coptic Christian neighborhood took me by surprise. Down a small path far below the ground, I walked past hundreds of black and white photographs of Egypt throughout the years. A gaggle of Egyptian tourists were listening to a guide explain Coptic history before a large storefront. Two enormous doors opened to inky blackness. Lights erupted as I entered: quadrants of halogen bulbs blinked to life exposing piece by piece the immensity before me. [...]
Categories: Africa North, Photography • Tags: Coptic Cairo, Egypt, Old Cairo Bazaar, tourism trinkets
