laila abdul-hadi jadallah photography
I’m baaaaaack…and with a fantastic exhibition I’m curating just in time for the 2011 FotoWeekDC festival! Full press release coming ASAP! follow me on twitter for daily updates on the show and other wonderful projects I’m working on. Love, Lulu
another edition of SND + VSN! i know i’ve been M.I.A…i promise i’m working on a lot of cool stuff. lulu
june 1950, nablus, palestine. i love love love this photo.
NEW WORK. | EMOTION IMMEDIATE see the full series, here. There is faith in loving fiercelythe one who is rightfully yours,especially if you have waited years and especially if part of you never believed you could deserve thisloved and beckoning handheld out to you this way.I am thinking of faith nowand the testaments of lonelinessand what we feel we are worthy of in this world.Years ago in the Hebrides I remember an old manwho walked every morningon the grey stones to the shore of baying seals,who would press his hatto his chest in the blusteringsalt wind and say his prayerto the turbulent Jesushidden in the water,and I think of the storyof the storm and everyone waking and seeingthe distant yet familiar figurefar across the watercalling to them,and how we are all waiting for that abrupt waking,and that calling,and that moment we have to say yes, except it will not come so grandly,so Biblically,but more subtly and intimately in the faceof the one you knowyou have to love,so that whenwe finally step out of the boat toward them, we find everything holds us, and everything confirmsour courage, and if you wanted to drown, you could,but you don’t,because finallyafter all this struggleand all these years,you don’t want to any more, you’ve simply had enoughof drowning,and you want to live and youwant to love and you willwalk across any territoryand any darkness,however fluid and howeverdangerous, to takethe one hand you know belongs in yours.  -david whyte dedicated to stefan. love, leelou.
sndandvsn: nurse your post fourth of july hangover and join us for another edition, another wonderful journey through sight and sound. 9pm, [hopefully] on the patio @ science club | 1136 19th Street NW
"The photographer is filled with doubt. Nothing will soothe him"

— Raymond Depardon (via melvinharperphotography)
"since nothing happens twice, each moment is a toss of dice."

— duane michals