I Want to Take Picture silas-finch Grays the Mountain Sends

Grays the Mountain Sends

He lives and works in midcoast Maine and doesn’t see a need to travel to make photographs: “Most everything that inspires me is within a few miles of my home

and interpret memory and history in a region where the medium has failed to provide an equitable depiction of its people

a tribute by his friends in recognition of his talent and our loss

I Want to Take Picture silas-finch Grays the Mountain SendsA reprint of Bill Burke's seminal book of the same title, first published by Nexus Press in 1987, I Want to Take Picture features black and white images which Burke shot during several trips through Southeast Asia in the early 1980s, particularly focusing on the aftereffects of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. "In 1982, years after Vietnam, I decided to give myself my own Southeast Asia experience. I wanted to make pictures in a place where I