Bachstage

Remembering Oliver Sacks

Both as a physician and as a writer, he had two great themes: identity and adaptation. Illness, he made plain, need not rob us of our essential selves—and this was something he exemplified in his final months, as a he continued to write remarkable essays even as cancer began to sap his strength and overwhelm him. Sacks understood our frequent ability to adapt, and emphasized that the capacity for someone to adapt to a particular condition—amnesia, blindness, deafness, migraines, phantom-limb syndrome, Asperger’s syndrome, and countless other conditions—cannot be known from the outset. 

Opera David Leventi

“Opera” records the interiors of world-famous opera houses, all photographed with 4x5” and 8x10” Arca-Swiss cameras to maximize detail. Architecturally meticulous, this body of work serves to historically document these national and cultural landmarks. 

Valentino Spring 2014 Couture